Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0"

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Mon Nov 27 2000 - 22:28:50 EST


On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:10:33PM +0900, kumon@flab.fujitsu.co.jp wrote:
> If you have two files:
> test1.c:
> int a,b,c;
>
> test2.c:
> int a,c;
>
> Which is _stronger_?

Those won't link together as they aren't declared static.

If they would been static they could be ordered file-per-file (note: I'm not
suggesting anything like that and I'm more than happy the compiler is allowed
to do sane optimizations with none downside :).

Andrea
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