Re: Rationale behind 'extern' on protypes in .h files

2013-12-23 Thread Ravi Shekhar Jethani
o your second point 'skipping the PLT...' also doesn't seem to apply here. Regards, Ravi Shekhar Jethani -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Rationale behind 'extern' on protypes in .h files

2013-12-22 Thread Ravi Shekhar Jethani
Hi, I am a C & Data Structure teacher at at an institute. Up until now I have only written classroom type C code. I always had interest in operating systems especially Linux Kernel but never got into anything just passively followed 'lwn.net', 'dr dobbs magazine' etc. But the series '30 Linux Kern