From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:59:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:58:59 -0500 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:33348 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:58:46 -0500 Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 04:28:50 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: kumon@flab.fujitsu.co.jp Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" Message-ID: <20001128042850.A29908@athlon.random> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/