From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, Mike Black <mblack@csihq.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.or" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.2.18 signal.h
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:06:36 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200012151906.eBFJ6ac28241@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> of "Fri, 15 Dec 2000 13:34:41 CDT." <Pine.LNX.3.95.1001215131538.1528B-100000@chaos.analogic.com>
"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> said:
[...]
> Both examples allow an extern declaration inside a function scope
> which is also contrary to any (even old) 'C' standards. 'extern'
> is always file scope, there's no way to make it otherwise.
AFAIR (rather dimly... no K&R at hand here) if you have an extern
declaration inside a block, it will be visible only within that block. The
object itself certainly is file scope (or larger).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-15 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-15 16:29 2.2.18 signal.h Mike Black
2000-12-15 16:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-12-15 17:07 ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-12-15 17:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-12-15 17:59 ` Franz Sirl
2000-12-15 18:34 ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-12-15 18:50 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-15 19:06 ` Horst von Brand [this message]
2000-12-15 20:15 ` Michael Meissner
2000-12-15 18:54 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-12-15 19:18 ` Ulrich Drepper
2000-12-15 19:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-12-15 20:09 ` Rik van Riel
2000-12-15 20:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-12-16 7:53 ` Anuradha Ratnaweera
2000-12-16 13:52 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-12-19 16:53 ` Michael Meissner
2000-12-15 19:55 ` Rik van Riel
2000-12-15 20:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-12-21 18:18 ` Thomas Dodd
2001-01-02 16:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-12-15 20:31 ` Michael Meissner
2000-12-17 5:27 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2000-12-15 21:56 Jesse Pollard
2000-12-15 22:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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