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

[hb]

On 02/26/2014 01:54 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

There was never such a tradition. The compilers, traditionally called
language processors, create the symbols and in case of definitions
assign storage. The linker simply matches the symbols, as they are, no
matter what the symbol name is. Especially there was never any upcasing
of symbol names.