Hello Michael, On Thu Oct 06, 2005 15:54, Michael Veksler wrote: [..] >> 2. I think that it will break C. As I remember, it is sometimes >> legal in C (or in some dialects of C) to have conflicting types. >> You may define in one translation unit: >> char var[5]; >> and then go on and define in a different translation unit: >> char var[10]; >> The linker will merge both declarations and allocate at least >> 10 bytes for 'var' (ld's --warn-common will detect this).
that is interesting: If the linker would behave that way, I wouldn't get the error because the needed 8 bytes for a double would be allocated. WR
