Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Path: utzoo!lsuc!jimomura
From: jimomura@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Omura)
Subject: static globals?
Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Omura)
Organization: Consultant, Toronto
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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1991 18:30:34 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.183034.15773@lsuc.on.ca>


     I've been working at a port of Rodney Volz' Mercury and there's a
fair bit of strangeness in some of the sources.  In the 'elm.c'
module I have had some strange problems with the Sozobon C TOP optimizer.
I think that this is not critical, but I decided to look for
problems in the source code.  One thing I've found is that he
declared a bunch of variables globally and made them "static".
This didn't seem to be a problem for the compiler, but I #ifdef'd
them out and replaced them with non-"static" declarations.

     I've never seen this type of declaration before.  Why would you
bother to declare a "global" as a "static"?  Is there any point to
it?  It doesn't seem to be a problem for the compilers to handle.
-- 
Jim Omura, 2A King George's Drive, Toronto, (416) 652-3880
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