Hi all- I'm in need of some advice. I have this project (sloppily) written in C code. I've found there are variables #define'ed in headers that have the same name as other global variables in other files. It's really a global variable mess... The compiler seems to compile away without giving any hint of something being wrong. As I clean the code up I keep running into this problem. (Or I could be wrong about the compiler giving any indication, but the code is so big it's tough to tell) I'm sure this could be dangerous at some point because the code is so long the problem might hide out for a while, then crash unexpectedly. Is there a tool in unix/irix that will find multiply defined variables? Is there a tool that would help analyze or clean up some of my mess? I'm using the 'cc' compiler in Irix 5.3 Thanks -Brad

Up the warning level on the compiler.

But I'd have to agree with Kylotan. No compiler or linker would allow multiple definitions of the same variable. In the same scope

Cheers
Chris

How can you #define variables? You #define constants - or, more precisely, macros.

Doing

#define Foo Barint Foo;

Is a perfectly valid C statement, and no compiler should ever issue a warning or an error about that.

Now, I may have misunderstood you. Cn you enlighten me by providing an example? (just the offending lines of code).

Regards,