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Re: [RFC:patch] c99 6.2.2: static vs extern


On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Dale Johannesen wrote:

> In C90 the x's obviously do not match up.  Less obviously, this is true 
> in C99 also,
> as 6.2.2P6 says that a block-level static specifies neither external nor
> internal linkage.  (The C90 phrasing seems much clearer to me, I wonder 
> why
> they rewrote it...)

DR#011 and TC1 may be relevant (in particular, in considering C90 you
should be considering the text as amended by TC1).

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm@polyomino.org.uk


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