From: "Simon Sulser" <simonsulser AT hotmail DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Pointers and Arrays (Newbie)
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 15:29:25 +0200
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You should only put declarations in header files and all definitions in
cpp-files. Maybe you included your header several times in different cpp
files.

-- header file --

// decleration
extern char const * message;

-- cpp file --

#include "header.h"

// definition
char const *message = "Blablablabla";

Of course if you only need message in one cpp file you don't have to write
the declaration into a header file at all. You can even declare it as
static, which means it's local to this cpp file.