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Declaration and Definition
- Definition refers to the place where the variable is created or assigned storage.
- Declaration refers to places where the nature of the variable is stated but no storage is allocated.
- In other words, a declaration announces the properties of a variable(primarily its type); a definition also causes storage to be set aside.
- There must be only one definition of an external variable among all the files that make up the program.
- There may also be extern declarations in the file containing the definition.