Re: Can a variable be both static and extern

From	Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Can a variable be both static and extern
Date	2017-03-24 12:09 +0000
Organization	Fix this later
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On 24/03/17 11:54, acidlategamer@gmail.com wrote:
<snip>
>
> The print statement and a = 10; is just written to avoid a warning.
> The question was asked by a interviewer from a company named Aricent bangalore.
> I checked more and something like this came up,
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14403796/can-a-variable-be-declared-both-static-and-extern
>
> I just don't understand why compiler writers leave spaces for such confusion.

Well, if you stop people doing stupid things, you run the risk of 
stopping them doing clever things too.

> extern makes linkage different than static, but the order of doing extern and static matter. How so?

The page you cite (above) explains all that, I think.

But the /real/ answer is:

Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do *this*.
  Doctor: Then don't do it.

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Can a variable be both static and extern acidlategamer@gmail.com - 2017-03-24 04:23 -0700
  Re: Can a variable be both static and extern Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-03-24 11:40 +0000
    Re: Can a variable be both static and extern acidlategamer@gmail.com - 2017-03-24 04:54 -0700
      Re: Can a variable be both static and extern Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-03-24 12:09 +0000
        Re: Can a variable be both static and extern James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-03-24 11:45 -0400
          Re: Can a variable be both static and extern raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2017-03-25 22:27 +0000
    Re: Can a variable be both static and extern Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-03-24 11:35 -0700
  Re: Can a variable be both static and extern Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-03-24 12:11 +0000
  Re: Can a variable be both static and extern raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2017-03-24 12:14 +0000
    Re: Can a variable be both static and extern David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-03-24 17:11 +0100
      Re: Can a variable be both static and extern scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-03-24 16:22 +0000
        Re: Can a variable be both static and extern David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-03-24 17:38 +0100
      Re: Can a variable be both static and extern James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-03-24 12:23 -0400
        Re: Can a variable be both static and extern David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-03-24 17:41 +0100
          Re: Can a variable be both static and extern jameskuyper@verizon.net - 2017-03-24 09:57 -0700
          Re: Can a variable be both static and extern supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-24 10:38 -0700
          Re: Can a variable be both static and extern Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-03-24 18:24 +0000
            Re: Can a variable be both static and extern "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-03-25 10:47 -0400
              Re: Can a variable be both static and extern Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-03-25 16:48 +0000
                Re: Can a variable be both static and extern Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-03-25 10:31 -0700
                Re: Can a variable be both static and extern Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-03-25 18:23 +0000
                Re: Can a variable be both static and extern supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-25 12:28 -0700
                Re: Can a variable be both static and extern Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2017-03-25 19:50 +0000
                Re: Can a variable be both static and extern supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-25 13:20 -0700
                Re: Can a variable be both static and extern jameskuyper@verizon.net - 2017-03-25 10:44 -0700
                Re: Can a variable be both static and extern supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-25 12:13 -0700

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