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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Changing symbols to "static"
Keywords: coff ld
Message-ID: <14325@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 3 Nov 90 03:36:36 GMT
References: <781@nixbur.UUCP> <3693@skye.ed.ac.uk> <3653@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
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In article <3653@vela.acs.oakland.edu> srodawa@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Ron Srodawa) writes:
>Non-static local variables are allocated on the stack, ...

The original question concerned global, i.e., file-scope, identifiers,
not auto variables.  Use of the word "STATIC" is unfortunate, since in
C the "static" keyword is semantically overloaded.