Re: Abolish 'static' functions in local scope

[Geoffrey Keating <geoffk at apple dot com>]

On 31/08/2004, at 1:52 AM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Geoffrey Keating wrote:
> >   I believe all three exist in real code.  The last two exist in
> >   GCC's testsuite.  (A) exists in Apple's code base and
> >   the Linux kernel.
>
> Since this is used in real code, even if not too often in those 
> codebases you could check, would you mind adding a note to 
> gcc-3.5/changes.html towards that end?

Aha!  I meant to ask about where to put such notes, but forgot.

Does this look right to you?

*** changes.html.~1.14.~        Tue Aug 17 12:47:28 2004
--- changes.html        Tue Aug 31 12:55:33 2004
***************
*** 49,54 ****
--- 49,60 ----
          deprecated in 3.3.4 and 3.4, have been removed.</li>
      <li>The <code>-fwritable-strings</code> option, which was
          deprecated in 3.4, has been removed.</li>
+     <li>The extension, or bug, where the C compiler would try to
+         give a meaning to a 'static' declaration at block scope, like
+       <pre>foo() {
+   static int bar();
+ }</pre> has been removed; the compiler will now always give an error 
on
+         this construct.</li>
    </ul>

  <h3>C++</h3>

--
Geoff Keating <geoffk@apple.com>

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