Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?

On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 02:09:55 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2025-06-09, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
 

Moving from AIX was an interesting exercise too. AIX was extremely
lenient about NULL accesses. While it was never good technique defining
variable in header files got a pass for years. Then whatever gcc
shipped with Debian Bullseye got snotty about multiple definitions.

 
Define PRIMARY in your main module, but not in the others.
Then, in the .h file that all your modules include:
 
#ifndef PRIMARY #define GLOBAL extern #endif
 
GLOBAL int foo;
 
Works a treat, even on the latest gcc.

I can't remember the flag offhand but it was easier to set it in the
Makefiles. When you're dealing with over 25 years of technical debt with
convoluted includes you tend to take the easiest way out.

A problem with having very little turnover in the programming staff is no
newbie to assign to the scut work.