On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 05:52:45PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 05:30:25PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 11:34:18AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 06, 2021 at 06:18:32PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > > > > > > Silently delete "extern" from prototypes. > > > > > > NAK, extern is right. > > > > Extern is only necessary for variables. > > Specifically C17, 6.2.2 p5 (linkage of identifiers): > > if the declaration of an identifier for a function has no > storage-class specifier, its linkage is determined exactly as if > it were declared with the storage-class specifier "extern". > > This is why nothing happens if "extern" is deleted.
I know, but I still very much like extern on the function declarations too. It tells me the definition isn't to be found in this TU.
