I know the ANSI C standard pretty well but I don't remember that at all so rather than just accepting it I checked it on my Mac using a small example. Compiler details are below:
kring:Development melanie$ gcc --version i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5657) In my example static const did have internal linkage, const on its own in the global scope did not. You still need static. Melanie On 14 Jun 2010, at 12:28, Gustavo Lopes wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:56:57 +0100, Melanie Rhianna Lewis > <cybersp...@php.net> wrote: > >> My feeling is that they should all be static consts unless explicitly >> accessed outside of the object module or changed. Since typically they're >> a list of function/method entries only accessed by a class or >> zend_module_entry that is really the case. Without the static we're >> polluting the name space. >> > > The static keyword is unnecessary, const already makes the variable have > internal linkage by default. > > -- > Gustavo Lopes > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
