On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 06:20:45AM -0500, Jesse Pollard wrote:
> >funca and funcb can be called from outside the module. They are still
> >declared static. If you trust static to mean ``cannot be called from outside''
> >you'll quickly fall flat onto your face.
> >Overall you want a flat name space anyways, to make tools like cscope or
> >[ce]tags work, so it is a good idea to use explicit bla_* prefixes anyways.
> >With that static is rather useless for most cases (except special
> >hacks like putting local symbols via macros into ELF segments etc.)
>
> This is not a symbolic "called from outside". sorry. does not correspond.
The static functions are effectively called from outside. Who cares if
it is symbolic or via a pointer? - the end effect counts: another unit does
a function call and your static function is invoked. If you ignore that
you miss a significant part of the program flow. If you trust static
to guarantee that this does not happen you will lose.
-Andi
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