mikwilmot wrote: > We are having a problem with defining global variables and having them > allocated contiguously in memory. There are two portions of two different > files. In FILE 1 the variables are defined all over memory, in FILE 2 the > variables are defined contiguously in memory. Our application has certain > reads that requires variables be defined one after another in memory. Oh dear. That's really bad. If you want contiguous allocation, you'll have to put all your global variables in a struct. Andrew.