Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Redeclaration of Variables extern/static
Message-ID: <1991Apr15.154410.19873@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1991 15:44:10 GMT
References: <1991Apr9.055250.24257@world.std.com> <15775@smoke.brl.mil> <1991Apr10.161742.21920@zoo.toronto.edu> <15815@smoke.brl.mil>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <15815@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...
>>Sorry Doug, you lose.  The original Ritchie compiler refuses to accept
>>such multiple declarations.  (I just tried it...
>
>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...

I don't think that's the reason, because I was actually speaking of the
7th Ed compiler.  (And a derivative of it is what I've got available
for testing.)
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