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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Redeclaration of Variables extern/static
Message-ID: <15815@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 12 Apr 91 21:36:54 GMT
References: <1991Apr9.055250.24257@world.std.com> <15775@smoke.brl.mil> <1991Apr10.161742.21920@zoo.toronto.edu>
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In article <1991Apr10.161742.21920@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <15775@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>>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.)

Hm, I guess the reason I don't recall that is that we upgraded our C
compiler on our 6th Edition UNIX system to a 7th Edition flavor as
fast as I was able to incrementally do so.  (Bootstrapping to a new
augmented version was a bit tricky.)