Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 28 Nov 2000 04:28:50 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" |
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On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:10:33PM +0900, kumon@flab.fujitsu.co.jp wrote: > If you have two files: > test1.c: > int a,b,c; > > test2.c: > int a,c; > > Which is _stronger_?
Those won't link together as they aren't declared static.
If they would been static they could be ordered file-per-file (note: I'm not suggesting anything like that and I'm more than happy the compiler is allowed to do sane optimizations with none downside :).
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