From: jesteel AT compugen DOT net (Jason E. Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Can't get external variables to work!??
Date: 07 Feb 1998 09:58:00 -0600
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"Bruce Merry (the Almighty Cheese)" <bmerry DOT nospam AT iafrica DOT com> writes:

> 
> kbd.c:
> #include "c_types.h"
> static volatile byte keys[128];
    ^^^
> /* code for keyboard handling */

The word 'static' used on a file-scope identifier specifies that 
the identifier will have internal linkage (in other words, it can 
not be seen outside of the source file where it's declared, 
'extern' or no)  Try removing the 'static'.
-- 
                 Jason E. Steele <jesteel AT compugen DOT net>
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