Autzoo.1190
net.v7bugs
utzoo!henry
Sun Dec 6 05:49:07 1981
lint vs static
With two C files like this:
file1.c:
static int stringscan()
{ return 1; }
file2.c:
static char strings[2000];
lint -hpc reports:
"file1.c", line 2: static variable stringsc$ unused
...
string multiply declared "file1.c"(2) :: "file2.c"(1)
Both complaints are wrong. In the first, lint is mixing up variables
and functions (there is a later complaint about the unused function,
which I left out because it's legitimate). In the second, lint is
complaining about name conflicts between names that are supposed
to be strictly local to their respective files and hence nonconflicting.
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