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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: unary +
Message-ID: <374@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Apr-86 00:44:56 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 17 00:44:56 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Apr-86 04:00:46 EST
References: <2323@brl-smoke.ARPA> <687@bentley.UUCP> <951@dataioDataio.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
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Summary: Static has one meaning.

In article <951@dataioDataio.UUCP> bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright writes:
>For all of those of you out there who were confused by the two distinct
>meanings of the keyword 'static', speak up!
>	1. If outside the scope of a function, do not make the symbol global.
>	2. If inside the scope of a function, allocate storage in
>	   the data segment instead of on the stack.

The single meaning of static is:  allocate storage in the appropriate
(text code or data) segment and make the symbol not accessible outside
this module.  When used inside a function, "module" means "function";
when used outside, "module" means "file".  [Maybe these are a differ-
ent two distinct meanings.]
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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}