Aaron, Are you experiencing problems that you believe is due to these multiple inclusions, or what is your main goal here that is driving you to get the number of inclusions down? Thanks, Lyle Taylor IS Applications -----Original Message----- From: Aaron Case [mailto:aaron.case@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 1:12 PM To: gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: multiple inclusion of header files accross Hello, Is there a ld switch to address the problem of multiple inclusion of header files accross object files. I have used #ifndef and #define to prevent multiple inclusion within an object file successfully. Or should this be address in the makefile? The current structure of the makefile compiles several objects and then links the objects together but, but some header files are included in almost all the source files used to make each object. Or should this be addressed by reorganizing my header files and throwing in a few extern keywords? Thanks in advance? Aaron Case