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From: diamond@csl.sony.co.jp (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Omission re static linkage
Message-ID: <10975@riks.csl.sony.co.jp>
Date: 19 Oct 89 07:26:07 GMT
Reply-To: diamond@ws.sony.junet (Norman Diamond)
Organization: Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc., Tokyo, Japan
Lines: 20

Consider the following program:

void f1() {
  extern void f3(void);  /* [1] */
}
void f2() {
  static void f3(void);  /* [2] */
}
static void f3() {       /* [3] */
}

According to section 3.1.2.2, declarations [1] and [3] refer to the
same identifier, and function f3 has internal linkage.  However, the
standard neglects to state what declaration [2] refers to.

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