On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: > >> BTW, why is this warned about? > > > > I imagine because in C it is not conventional to use "extern" when > > defining something, only on a declaration that is not a definition. > > But may it lead to some confusion or subtle error? It seems overly > pedantic to me if it is just a matter of style, because extern is > implicit if missing,
"int i;" is not the same as "extern int i;". -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
