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From: mikem@otc.OZ (Mike Mowbray)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: C-compiler ignores "static"
Message-ID: <124@otc.OZ>
Date: Sat, 30-May-87 20:52:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: otc.124
Posted: Sat May 30 20:52:51 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jun-87 02:08:45 EDT
References: <1189@botter.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: O.T.C. Systems Development, Australia
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in article <1189@botter.cs.vu.nl>, ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) says:
> 
> For long and complicated reasons, the MINIX C compiler effectively
> ignores static declarations.  Thus if you have a declaration
> static int x= 1;
> that appears in two files, when you link them you will get multiply defined
> symbols.

Are there any other surprises in the C-compiler we should know about? (This
one seems to imply that C++ couldn't be used with this C-compiler.)

			Mike Mowbray
			Systems Development
			Overseas Telecommunications Commission (Australia)

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