Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Redeclaration of Variables extern/static
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.161742.21920@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1991 16:17:42 GMT
References: <^R+_H3-@uzi-9mm.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> <1243@airs.UUCP> <1991Apr9.055250.24257@world.std.com> <15775@smoke.brl.mil>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <15775@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>>... Some Classic compilers (including the original one,
>>if memory serves) can't cope with forward static declarations at all.
>
>I've never seen a UNIX C compiler that had a problem with multiple
>declarations of the same object with static linkage, so long as all
>declarations of the object included the "static" storage specifier.

Sorry Doug, you lose.  The original Ritchie compiler refuses to accept
such multiple declarations.  (I just tried it, to be sure my memory
was correct.)
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