ERROR in COMPILING

[Mahesh]

Hey pals, I'm getting an error while compilin a piece of code the error states as below

Error 160: EXTERNal Symbol not found s

the line it points is the last possible line in the code.
I dunno what the error is. Pls help me on this.

[Mahesh]

just now noticed tat the error its showin in the line where no code is there..
i mean code stops at line 371
error line is 373!! but at line 373 there is nothin,,
How to debug this.. pls help urgent

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[Mahesh]

Here is the part of code.. the full code is too long.. so i'm postin the part where error is comin.,.

#include <16F877a.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#use delay (clock=20000000)
#use rs232(baud=115200, xmit=PIN_C6, rcv=PIN_C7, stream=com_1)

#fuses HS,NOWDT,NOPROTECT,NOBROWNOUT,PUT,NOLVP

#byte RCREG=0x1A
#bit CREN=0x18.4
#bit OERR=0x18.1
#bit RCIF=0x0c.5
#bit RCIE=0x8c.5
#bit GIE=0x0b.7
#byte PORTA=0x05

#define serial_error() OERR // USART error
#define serial_fix() {CREN=0;CREN=1;}
#define serial_rx_ready() RCIF

extern byte s[77];
extern byte msg[7];
extern byte i,l;
extern byte status1[18];
extern byte mloc;


These extern byte variables are used in the source code file.. i've only one source file which contains 5 functions apart from main..
each function uses one variable... the code compiles properly without errors if i compile it removing the extern keyword.. is it ok if i remove the extern key word and compile???
pls help...

[ckielstra]