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From: moncam!paul@UUNET.UU.NET (Paul Hudson)
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Subject: Is this legal?
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Date: 21 Jun 89 09:52:56 GMT
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I accidently used the same name for two different static variables of
the same type, and so declared the variable twice eg:

static int a;

and later

static int a;

Sun CC warns about this (indeed, it's an error), but gcc doesn't. Is
this a bug in gcc? or does ANSI allow this.

Even if it is allowed, I'd like it to (optionally) warn about it since
in this case the error message did uncover a bug.

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