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From: uday@mips.UUCP (Uday Kurkure)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.lang.c
Subject: Motivation behind a particular piece of code in cpp
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Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 12:37:37 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 24 12:37:37 1987
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Keywords: cpp, static, STATIC
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   I do not understand the motivation behind a following declaration
   found in the sources of cpp.

     #define STATIC

     Then there are various declartions of the sort
     STATIC char ch.

    If STATIC is defined to be null, why would one use it in declarations ?


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