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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty add compat_ioctl method
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On Thursday 03 May 2007, Paul Fulghum wrote:
> 
> > declarations should never be hidden inside of an #ifdef. If you want to be
> > extra clever here, you can do
> 
> OK, I have no problem with that.
> A declaration without implementation won't generate a warning?

You only get a warning for static declarations without an implementation,
not for globals.

	Arnd <><