c-program

Question

extern int i;
int i=10;
i =5
int main()
{ printf("%d",i); return 0;}

 what will be the output?

it is a compiler error but answer given is 5

Comments

yes, it will give re-declaration error,

'i' is being declared two times in a same scope

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@joshi_nitish yes there will be error but won't we call this redefinition rather than redeclaration? Because we can declare a variable as many times we want but define ony once.