Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0"

From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: kumon@flab.fujitsu.co.jp
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0"
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 04:28:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001128042850.A29908@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200011270556.VAA12506@baldur.yggdrasil.com> <20001127094139.H599@almesberger.net> <200011270839.AAA28672@pizda.ninka.net> <20001127182113.A15029@athlon.random> <20001127123655.A16930@munchkin.spectacle-pond.org> <20001127200618.A19980@athlon.random> <200011280310.MAA27358@asami.proc.flab.fujitsu.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <200011280310.MAA27358@asami.proc.flab.fujitsu.co.jp>; from kumon@flab.fujitsu.co.jp on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:10:33PM +0900

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:10:33PM +0900, kumon@flab.fujitsu.co.jp wrote:
> If you have two files:
> test1.c:
> int a,b,c;
> 
> test2.c:
> int a,c;
> 
> Which is _stronger_?

Those won't link together as they aren't declared static.

If they would been static they could be ordered file-per-file (note: I'm not
suggesting anything like that and I'm more than happy the compiler is allowed
to do sane optimizations with none downside :).

Andrea
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