VMS Help CC, Messages, LOCALEXTINI  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

 Message        The block-level declaration of "<name>" includes an
                initializer and specifies storage class extern.

 Description    A block-level declaration with extern storage class
                cannot contain an initializer.

 User Action    Remove the initializer from the declaration or move
                the declaration to file scope.