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...then be two definitions of x, a link-time error. > FWIW -------- main.c ---------- #include <stdio.h> int x; int main(int arcg, char **argv) { fprintf(stderr, "x is: %d\n", x); return 0; } ---------- init.c --------- extern int x; __attribute__((constructor)) static void __initialize() { x = 12; } [MacBook:~/Desktop]% gcc -c init.c [MacBook:~/Desktop]% gcc -c main.c [MacBook:~/Desktop]% gcc -o test init.o main.o [MacBook:~/Desktop]% ./test x is: 12 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/a...

> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but how can the compiler know, that x is not > initialized in another file which defines x as extern? It can only be > sure, when x is declared static. I don't think you can attach an initializer to an extern except at the point where the variable is defined. But since x is defined here, there would then be two definitions of x, a link-time

Hmm... The Mac makefiles are beginning to get really out of date in the mainstream ogg and vorbis trees. As a mtter of fact, there aren't any Mac makefiles in the ogg tree. I can make an attempt to update them, but I'm not very good at library work (exported symbols confuse the hell out of me), or if Chris is listening, I'm making a request for an update... please? Thanks,