Re: Newbie about using extern in C.

[James Mills <prologic@daisy.ods.org>]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 01:51:18PM +0800, James Ng Yuen Sum wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am a newbie in using linux and C language. I want to ask how to use
> "extern". In C language, we can have two .c file, in one file the
> variable(s) can be open for other .c file use if extern is the storage
> class of the variable.
> 
> But my teacher has told me that in gcc, I have to use Makefile to do it.
> But I do not know how to do that in gcc.

I suggest you read the following material.
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/node35.html#SECTION003520000000000000000

cheers
James

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