Re: why the interrupt handler should be marked "static" for it isnever called directly from another file.

[Zachary Amsden]

n l wrote:

> I see, if a function in a module is not marked by static ,it can be
> accessed by any other function in kernel, while , using a static can
> avoid it .
>
> thanks a lot !!
>
>
> 2005/8/11, Giuliano Pochini <pochini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>  
>
> > On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, n l wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > could you explain its reason for using static ?
> > >      
> > Anything which is never referenced from another file should be
> > static in order to keep namespace pollution low.

There is actually another very good reason as well.  By marking 
functions static, you are telling the compiler that they may be only 
used in that file.  This allows the compiler to remove unused functions, 
which would be left in if implicitly declared "extern" by omitting the 
static.

Zach
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