/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Main Program *----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ int main (void) { /* main entry for program */
6.3.7 Methods of importing linker-defined symbols in C and C++
You can import linker-defined symbols into your C or C++ source code. They are external symbols and you must take the address of them. The only case where the & operator is not required is when the array declaration is used, for example extern char symbol_name[];.