Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 07:26:13 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [GCC 4.0 PATCH] devfs_vnops.c Message-ID: <3631.1117085173@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 May 2005 00:48:24 EDT." <20050526044824.GA81201@crodrigues.org>
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In message <20050526044824.GA81201@crodrigues.org>, Craig Rodrigues writes:
>"If, within a translation unit, the same identifier appears with both
>internal and external linkage, the behavior is undefined."
>
>So, if you have:
>
>extern struct foo bar;
>static struct foo bar = { ..... };
Well, the reason is it like that is that you cannot forward
declare a static (at least in the -current GCC)
static struct foo bar;
[...]
static struct foo bare = { ... };
This might be a bug in C.
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