Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 10:23:58 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Problems with extern and sizeof
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On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Gorka wrote:

> kk2.c: Error: sizeof applied to an incomplete type.
> Can anybody tell me why?

Because, when it compiles kk2.c, the compiler doesn't know how large
dias[] is: the actual size is known inside mosqueo.e, but not in
kk2.c.

> And how to avoid it?

Make the size of dias[] a global variable computed at compile time,
and use it inside kk2.c as an extern.