On 01/14/10 08:26:31, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Online I found this: > > http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/c_evolution.html > > [T]he ANSI Draft Standard finally settled on definition-reference > rules in 1988. Common-block public storage is still admitted as > an acceptable variation by the standard.
Thanks, I found some dicussion in the C99 Rationle document, http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/C99RationaleV5.10.pdf section 6.2.2, "Linkage of Identifiers" (pp. 32-34). The email thread on this mailing list that I was referring to is here: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2009-04/msg00812.html
