Hi guys
I am doing a project in which muti file programming is being used, all program file uses a common header file
#include "bash.h"
i am using a global variable which is declared in header file (pointer to array).When i call this variable in .cpp file it gives zero value whereas in header file it is giving correct value.
I have also used the keyword "extern" but of no use.
pl help
The main problem is probably that you have a global variable in the first place.
I have no idea how you think you are "calling" this variable in the header file.
Your header file should just say "extern whatever" and your main program should declare it, if you have to do this.
Hi
In fact in the header file i have define this variable with keyword extern
extern char array[10];
In other cpp file i am just declaring it like
char array[10];
at both the places i am declaring it after
using namespace std; and out of main()
In one of the cpp file I am defining its value where it is showing its correct value but in other cpp file when i am trying to retrieve it, it is showing zeros
rgds
And that's a problem. One time. You get to declare the variable one time.Originally Posted by skumarisation
I have run into few global variables that *didn't* end of being a problem.
Seriously, if you create your header like this you should be fine:
Then just include that in your CPPs, they all see it but you don't get the multiple includes...(the guards do the work)..Code:// my header file #ifndef MY_HEADER_FILE_HPP #define MY_HEADER_FILE_HPP int myVariable; #endif
That's not true. You're thinking of the one definition rule. It is possible to declare something more than once, as long as one and only one of those declarations is a definition.
In any event, for the original problem, the header file needs to be #include'd in all the .cpp files (where array is defined, and also in all other files that need to use array).
Hi
the problem has been sorted out. Just for others interest, since my reqmt was to share the variable between two cpp files having same header file.I used shared memory(metaphor), Inter process comn (IPC) between these two files.It is working fine. The problem with extern what I visualised was that both cpp were making its own copy of variable and not sharing with each other.Both cpp were having main() in it.May be that's the reason
Thanks to all
rgds
