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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: extern question
Keywords: static struct forward declaration
Message-ID: <8213@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 5 Jul 88 03:57:01 GMT
References: <4182@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <8200@brl-smoke.ARPA> <457@m3.mfci.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <457@m3.mfci.UUCP> karzes@mfci.UUCP (Tom Karzes) writes:
>        extern struct foo   x;
>        extern struct bar   y;
>        struct foo  x = {123, &y};
>        struct bar  y = {456, &x};
>Now suppose you want to make x and y static.  What do you do?  

Same thing, but include "static" in all declarations that mention
them, particularly the first.

	static struct foo x;
	static struct bar y;
	static struct foo x = { 123, &y };
	static struct bar y = { 456, &x };