Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!horga!presto!dc From: dc@presto.ruhr.de (David Channing) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: static globals? [addendum to previous message] Message-ID: <8423444@presto.ruhr.de> Date: 3 May 91 14:18:26 GMT References: <1991Apr30.183034.15773@lsuc.on.ca> <1991May1.020731.16272@wam.umd.edu> Lines: 13 In article <1991May1.020731.16272@wam.umd.edu> dmb@wam.umd.edu (David M. Baggett) writes: > > If you're not using separate compilation; i.e., if you have one > giant .c file or #include everything all at once, then static > vs. auto makes little difference for globals. Unless of course your global variable names conflict with names in the library, in which case you would want to make them static. -- dc@presto.ruhr.sub.org dc@presto.ruhr.de