From: Geert Fannes Date: 2005-03-10T17:07:44+09:00 Subject: Re: x86_64 segmentation fault due to forgotten extern directive Why does this cause a problem when extern is omitted? Is there some standard return type C assumes when extern is not present? >Normal, on 32 bit machine sizeof(int) == sizeof(unsigned long). >This is not the case on x86_64 > >Guy Decoux