Re: [PHP-DEV] le_ why static?

[Andrei Zmievski]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Sam Liddicott wrote:
 Why are le_* garbage destructor handles declared static?
 
 As far as I can tell this means other c files in the same module can't
 "extern" it but as it is static in file scope it has none of the other
 benefits of being static?
 
 Is it to do with threading?  What?

It doesn't have to be static. I've used non-static le_* variables in the
latest extension I'm writing.

-Andrei
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Re: [PHP-DEV] le_ why static?

[Sascha Schumann]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Sam Liddicott wrote:

 Why are le_* garbage destructor handles declared static?

 As far as I can tell this means other c files in the same module can't
 "extern" it but as it is static in file scope it has none of the other
 benefits of being static?

 Is it to do with threading?  What?

Usually, other source files do not need access to those
symbols.  Hence, exporting them without a reason would only
pollute the global symbol space.  If you need to access such
a symbol in more than one source file, I suggest prefixing
the symbol correctly.

- Sascha


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