Re: [Mingw-users] how do I declare a variable as being "not extern"

[Jonathan W. <jo...@tp...>]

Well when I compile the code containing this definition and then 
disassemble the .o file produced by GCC, my disassembler (IDA pro 4.30) 
tells me that __tls_index is an extern

The entire code looks like this:
#include <windows.h>
DWORD __tls_start __attribute__ ((section (".tls"))) = 0;
DWORD __tls_end __attribute__ ((section (".tls$ZZZ"))) = 0;
DWORD __tls_index;
PIMAGE_TLS_CALLBACK ___xl_a __attribute__ ((section (".CRT$XLA"))) = 0;
PIMAGE_TLS_CALLBACK ___xl_z __attribute__ ((section (".CRT$XLZ"))) = 0;
IMAGE_TLS_DIRECTORY __tls_used = {(DWORD)&__tls_start, (DWORD)&__tls_end, 
&__tls_index, &___xl_a, 0, 0};

__tls_index should be in the uninitalized data segment but instead its 
ending up as extrn ___tls_index:near
its in a segment labeled by IDA as UNDEF and as Segment type: Externs
Anyone wanna tell me whats going on?