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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Why are typedef names in the same name space as variable names?
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Date: Thu, 4-Dec-86 13:34:20 EST
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> ...default sc-specifiers are assigned.  K&R state that the default is auto
> inside a function and *extern* outside.  It seems to be *static* in most
> C implementations these days.

Can you name a few?  Extern is the way it has always been in C; compilers
which default to static are broken.  (Please don't cite C++, that isn't C.)
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