Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!mephisto!udel!mmdf
From: HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: C SYNTAX QUESTION
Message-ID: <20394@nigel.udel.EDU>
Date: 28 May 90 07:48:08 GMT
Sender: usenet@udel.EDU
Lines: 13

In the ST-1.5 distribution, kernel/stvdu.c, there is a function
with body (flush) and the EXTERN (extern) attribute.
Is this legal?
My compiler compiled that function OK, but did not export the function
name since it was not global, so the linker gave an error.
The ,,fix'' to the compiler is trivial:
if (function with body AND storage class is extern) THEN set storage class
to global.

The question is: should I do this with the compiler, producing another
patch, or is it an error in stvdu.c?

C.v.W