On 10/21/2010 04:34 PM, Alexey Skidanov wrote: > Thanks for your response. You are absolutely right regarding to > -Wglobal-variable. I would prefer to get some kind of error (linking > error?) about two global variables with the same name instead of dynamic > loader/linker decision to "merge" them. This is standard, and correct behaviour. The One Definition Rule says that there can only ever be one definition of a symbol in a program, and UNIX has always merged multiple definitions to achieve this. Also, plenty of programs depend on this behaviour: it's just something to get used to. Andrew.
