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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Subroutine layout in C
Message-ID: <9297@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 7 Jan 89 01:04:25 GMT
References: <2459@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2459@ssc-vax.UUCP> dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary) writes:
>#define PRIVATE static
>PRIVATE int X() { ... }

The only legitimate reason for doing this is to make it convenient
to force these functions to have external linkage when using a
debugger that doesn't provide decent support for static functions.

>#define PUBLIC 

This one is a waste of time.