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In article <43k0p4$mjv@rdsunx.crd.ge.com>, volpe@bart.crd.ge.com (Christopher
R. Volpe) writes: 
|> For years I've used code like:
|> 
|> foo()
|> {
|>   static int count_number_of_calls = 0;
|> 
|>   count_number_of_calls++;
|>   /* Do other stuff */
|> }
|> 
|> However, this appears to violate the fourth constraint in ANSI Classic
section 
|> 3.5.7. Am I reading this right? Gcc -ansi -pedantic accepts it without so
much 
|> as a peep, and I can't think of why it ought to be illegal, but apparently
it 
|> is. 

I hope that is ANSI/ISO 6.5.7. I do not understand what you are
referring to. count_number_of_calls here has no linkage (6.1.2.2 makes clear
that static specifies internal linkage only for a file scope object or
function: this identifier does not have file scope) : so it does not have
`external or internal' linkage: so the fourth constraint does not apply.

Could you clarify?

Cheers
Tanmoy
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