At 08:27 2002-11-24 -0800, you wrote:
From: "Ben Combee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> In short, the "static" keywords are used to keep CodeWarrior from
> complaining about the lack of prototypes for these functions.
Well, I guess that's one way of looking at it--to shut the compiler up! :)
But the compiler is complaining because it either wants a prototype
(showing the intention to export the function to other modules) or it wants
a static keyword (making sure the global namespace isn't polluted).
The other way of looking at it is that functions local to a compilation unit
should _always_ be static, for exactly the same reasons that globals are
discouraged--to limit scope (which helps to limit bugs).
Agreed.
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