> I understood his intention differently. He used his "trick" not just in main, > but also in every file in his example.
Yes, it does not matter. As I said, he adds an attempt to *refer* to the global variable in main() to make it "used". > Did you actually check this in C++? Yes. > But in any case your original question was > about C, not C++. It was about C++. C and C++ compilers behave the same. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | o...@goldshmidt.org _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il