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"extern" and function declarations

#2183
From: Lawrence Kirby
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 00:25
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In article <4he42q$a7q@solutions.solon.com>
           tanmoy@qcd.Lanl.GOV "Tanmoy Bhattacharya" writes:

 > In article <4hdqjq$8pr@solutions.solon.com>
 > fred@genesis.demon.co.uk (Lawrence Kirby) writes:
 > <snip>
 > LK: I'm curious - do people find this enlightening (you learnt something),
 > LK: obvious (you knew it already, comp.std.c regulars need not apply),
 > LK: unintelligible (I didn't explain it very clearly) or uninteresting (not
 > LK: worth the bandwidth)?
 > 
 > I am amused at the fact that you went to so much trouble to explain
 > the details of extern, static, even tentative definitions; but failed
 > to include the behaviour of the following four program fragments:

Good question. I just decided not to get into the comnplication of mixing
static/extern and scope at that point. I was in a hurry! :-)

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From: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk (Lawrence Kirby)
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Subject: "extern" and function declarations
Date: 6 Mar 1996 18:25:47 -0600
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