Re: confused about extern use

Chris Dollin wrote:

A compilation unit is the thing you feed to the C compiler: a
source file and its #includes.

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5.1 Conceptual models
5.1.1 Translation environment
5.1.1.1 Program structure
A source file together with all the headers and
source files included via the preprocessing directive
#include is known as a preprocessing translation unit.

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pete
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