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Re: gcc-in-cxx update

From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
To: Manuel López-Ibáñez <lopezibanez at gmail dot com>
Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:57:18 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: gcc-in-cxx update
References: <m3hc0729jr.fsf@google.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0904291120200.23778@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <6c33472e0904290513j44b3cafdl77b38de0cd2619cd@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0904291321570.25453@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <6c33472e0904290642j4b243ba3u4ec76b71b0c0e410@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:

> >> BTW, why is this warned about?
> >
> > I imagine because in C it is not conventional to use "extern" when
> > defining something, only on a declaration that is not a definition.
> 
> But may it lead to some confusion or subtle error? It seems overly
> pedantic to me if it is just a matter of style, because  extern is
> implicit if missing,

"int i;" is not the same as "extern int i;".

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

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