Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0"

[Herbert Xu]

On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 11:46:24PM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> 
> But if the program
> 
>   static int a = 0;
> 
>   int main() {
>         /* do something */
>   }
> 
> is used as part of a larger program, it has to become
> 
>   static int a;
> 
>   int do_something() {
>         a = 0;
>         ...
>   }

Only if the person doing the change follows this convention, if that happens
to be you, not a problem.  But in a project like Linux, it's not very likely
to happen.

It's much better to put a comment above the definition.
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