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Question by ashwani
Submitted on 3/16/2004
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what is the benefit to declare the global variables in a seperate .c file and use extern to use them?


Answer by harish
Submitted on 4/8/2004
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by doing this if u need to make a change to the variable then u can do it in a single place so that there will not be any mistake due to modification.

 

Answer by aryan
Submitted on 10/19/2005
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so that we don't need to write extern more than once.we also don't need to mention it inside main().

 

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