On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Sam Liddicott wrote:
> Why are le_* garbage destructor handles declared static?
>
> As far as I can tell this means other c files in the same module can't
> "extern" it but as it is static in file scope it has none of the other
> benefits of being static?
>
> Is it to do with threading? What?
Usually, other source files do not need access to those
symbols. Hence, exporting them without a reason would only
pollute the global symbol space. If you need to access such
a symbol in more than one source file, I suggest prefixing
the symbol correctly.
- Sascha
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