On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 11:23:05AM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> Proposal: Forbid extern declarations in .c files.
>
> extern declarations in .c files invite easily avoided bugs where the
> definition and use have mismatched types, because the compiler doesn't
> have an opportunity to check them. Fix: Always put the extern
> declaration in a .h file shared by the .c file defining it and the .c
> files using it.
>
> Pretty simple. Any objections?
Maybe an exception could be made for functions defined in an assembly file and
used from a single C file ?
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