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From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: 3.7 constraints and 3.7.2 semantics
Keywords: external/tentative definitions, internal linkage
Message-ID: <5450@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 91 18:16:45 GMT
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Ia.
Lines: 14

Does p.82, lines 13-15, imply that the following is not standard conforming,
or does p.84, lines 31-34, provide an escape hatch?

	James Jones

--------------------begin code fragment
static int	i;	/* tentative definition, internal linkage */

int
woof(void)
{
	return ++i;	/* usage other than in sizeof() */
}
--------------------end code fragment