Re: [NEWBIE] double declaration of extern

From: George (greerga@CIRCLEMUD.ORG)
Date: 09/27/98


On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Mundi King wrote:

>i become easily confused when facing structures and pointers, and i was
>wondering what the following code in act.item.c does
>
>#endif
>extern struct obj_data *obj_proto;
>extern struct obj_data *obj_proto;
>extern char *drinknames[];
>
>what does having the same two lines accomplish?

You get a neat warning if you use -Wredundant-decls.  Otherwise it's
useless. I'll go remove the extra one.

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