Ticket #260 (Fixed)Tue Dec 14 13:56:40 UTC 2010

Internal inconsistency error when incorrectly marking a variable as both 'extern' and '__global_reg'

Details by Jeffrey Lee (213):

If you first declare a variable as extern, then attempt to redeclare it as __global_reg, CC will fail with an internal inconsistency error. See here for a simple example (although I have a feeling the ‘void *’ in that example should have been a ‘workspace *’). This was seen with both CC 5.65 and 5.68.

If you declare a variable as both ‘extern’ and ‘__global_reg’ at once then you only get an ordinary error; it’s only when you declare the variable twice that the compiler will fail.