Re: why do the following crash

["Bartc"]

<parag_paul@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:f5b46a43-52b2-45e2-8bfe-979c20e33dc7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> File1.c
>
>  int arr[80];
>
> File2.c
>
>  extern int *arr;
>  int main()
>  {
>      arr[1] = 100;
>      return 0;
>  }

The declarations for the arr variable don't match.

Try extern int arr[80] in File2.c.

(I know arrays and pointers are /supposed/ to be interchangeable. But there
is a subtle difference between: int a[80] and int *a)

-- 
Bart