Richard Sandiford <richard.sandif...@linaro.org> writes: | Gabriel Dos Reis <g...@cs.tamu.edu> writes: | > | FWIW, I prefer Andrew's patch, but since yours has been applied, | > | I suppose there's no point changing it. | > | > when we come to agree on coding style guidelines for GCC in C++, I hope we | > recommend against local extern declarations. | | Oh, for pure C++, I definitely agree. This sort of thing ought to | be marked as private or some such in a C++ context. But while we're | confining ourselves to a subset of C, I think local externs are a useful | way of hiding implementation details.
well, please apply Andrew's and revert mine then. -- Gaby
