Pinski wrote: > What about the following two sources: > char t; > --- > extern int t; > What should happen? According to the C standard this is invalid code but > the compiler does not need to diagnose the problem.
Yup. Certainly a great way to re-use space across separately compiled "C" source files (ala Fortran's blank common). <g> I can see where the compiler is within its rights to issue a warning above, or even a pedantic error.
