[Info-vax] Possible C compiler static variable initialization problem.

[Bob Koehler]

In article <leko68$egf$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> 
> On VMS, variables defined in different source files, but with the same name,
> were traditionally treated as different variables by the linker and space
> allocated for each variable definition.

   I've been working with C on VMS since early VAX C days, and I've
   never seen that.   A file level variable (outside of any function)
   is treats as global to the code unless it's specificially declared
   static.