On Wednesday, 19 July 2017 at 15:28:50 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
I'm not so sure of that. Private functions still generate
symbols. I think in C, there is no symbol (at least in the
object file) for static functions or variables.
They generate hidden symbols. That's just how it implements
private functions in C: you can't do anything else without
mangling. You probably can't compile two C units into one object
file if they have static functions with the same name - this
would require mangling to make two symbols different.
