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From: beal@polaris.UUCP (John L. Beal)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c,net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Re: Undefined static function
Message-ID: <178@polaris.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 13:55:17 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 18 13:55:17 1985
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Xref: watmath net.lang.c:6485 net.bugs.4bsd:1763

> Every declaration which is outside the definition of any function
> declares an extern static something, even with "extern" or "static"
> or both omitted.
> 				Adam Reed
> 				ihnp4!npois!adam

Not true. Static is used to hide the declaration from other files
and the default of automatic to scope it throughout the program.