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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2014-02-26, Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

My apologies for the wrong information than.

I encountered this back in the 90s with a C compiler and I had thought it
was on VMS. I wonder if it was one of the early Microsoft C MS-DOS/Win 9x
compilers which I worked with in that timeframe as well ?

Simon.

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