Michael Van Canneyt wrote on Thu, 18 Jun 2015:
Note that they are declared as c variables. It means that the symbol isn't actually used in linking until someone writes code that actually uses the variable.
Correction: "cvar" changes the name mangling to be ABI-conformant. The reason for the behaviour described above is because they're declared as "external" (which is the same as for a variable declared as "extern" in C).
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