[ksh93-integration-discuss] Patch to remove some gloval vars inlibcmd...
James Carlson
james.d.carlson at sun.com
Tue Oct 31 04:05:29 PST 2006
Roland Mainz writes:
> Uhm... why ? These global variables are |static| and therefore visible
> only in the source file where they're defined it. And in the case of our
> Solaris integration we use "mapfile-vers" which limites the exported
> symbols to exactly those listed in this file.
Not that it matters much, but a better term for those might be (per
the C standard) "variables with static storage duration." It might
reduce confusion.
The visibility or scope (clause, function, file, library, global) is
separate issue from the way the variables are stored.
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