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Computers → Computer programming → Programming and scripting languages → C programming language
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  • yeroco
    When you use the "extern" keyword, that tells the compiler that it doesn't have to allocate space for the variable because the space for it is located in another object file. So extern allows you to access a global variable that is declared in a different C source file.
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