Frederic RISS writes: > Olivier Langlois writes: > > Maybe it has something to do with my compilation switches > [...] > > -Wall -fno-common -fno-exceptions -O1 -fforce-mem > [...] > > 'man gcc' tells us: > > -fno-common > In C, allocate even uninitialized global variables in the data sec- > tion of the object file, rather than generating them as common > blocks. This has the effect that if the same variable is declared > (without "extern") in two different compilations, you will get an > error when you link them. The only reason this might be useful is > if you wish to verify that the program will work on other systems > which always work this way. > > That looks like your ``issue''... LOL! And I missed it!! My eyesight must be going ... :-) Andrew.
