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From: bart <bc@freeuk.com>
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Subject: Re: do { quit; } else { }
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 11:36:18 +0100
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On 09/04/2025 10:00, Ike Naar wrote:
> On 2025-04-08, bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
>> However if I need to initialise the variable:
>>
>>      extern int table[];          // shared
>>      int table[] = (10, 20, 30)
>>
>> then other modules can't pick up length of the array.
> 
>    extern int table[3];

That is not practical to do. If it was, you'd just write:

       int table[3] = (10, 20, 30)

instead. But now you need to track the size of the data (it could be 
1000s of elements) and keep both bounds updated.

The data can also include conditional elements that affect the total.