Re: external declares
Re: external declares
- Subject: Re: external declares
- From: Charlton Wilbur <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:43:59 -0500
On Feb 11, 2006, at 3:16 PM, Robert Dell wrote:
the main question was is it something wrong with the compiler or is
it something wrong with me.
And the answer is that, as I pointed out in the post to which you are
responding, it's a structural problem with the way you have divided
your code into files and the way that C compiliation units interact.
That's why it's off-topic for the XCode list: it's not a problem with
XCode, because it's the same problem regardless of what development
environment you're working in.
(At this point as gcc has been around for nearly two decades, I'd
expect the likelihood of an inexperienced C programmer finding a
significant problem in gcc completely by accident to be about the
same as the likelihood of that same programmer being hit by
lightning. It is *far* more likely that the inexperienced C
programmer is misunderstanding some aspect of C, and given the
problem I already suspect based on your question, that's definitely
the way I'd bet.)
If you want help, the best place to ask is in a place where people
are offering support and information about the thing you're having
the problem with. You're having problems with basic C, not with
XCode, so you'll get much better help, much more cheerfully given, if
you ask in a forum dedicated to basic C problems. I don't know where
such forums are now, but I'd bet that the people in the comp.lang.c
or comp.lang.c.moderated would be able to answer a civil, clear
question or point you in the direction of further resources. I'd
recommend reading at least a week's worth of either group before
posting, though -- if you think my response to your off-topic
question was severe (as you seem to, based on your response),
comp.lang.c in particular will seem outrageous.
Also, see especially http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-
questions.html -- particularly the sections titled "Choose your forum
carefully" and "Don't claim that you have found a bug." "On not
reacting like a loser" may also be relevant, depending on how this
thread progresses.
Charlton
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