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lmiller@aero.org (Lawrence H. Miller) writes:

>	If the declarator or type
>	specifier...appears outside of any block or list of
>	parameters, the identifier has file scope, which terminates
>	at the end of the translation unit.

>Now I interpret this to mean what it says: a function definition has
>FILE SCOPE, i.e., from the START to the END of the file.

It doesn't say that: it says only that file scope goes to the end of the file.
C is very much a declare-before-use language:
in C, file scope is from the declaration to the end of the file.
To quote chapter and verse, ANSI C 3.1.2.1 says a normal identifier
``has scope that begins just after the completion of its declarator.''