From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: A program to find all unused symbols in a C program
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 08:59:19 -0800
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nikki wrote:

> just a thought, but putting 'static' before global variables and
> compiling
> with -Wall will show unusued global variables too. as well as local
> unused
> ones.

Those are static external, not external (e.g., global).  The static
qualifier before a variable definitions outside of any block means that the
linkage is internal to that file.  You can't reference it in another file.

In other words, it's _not_ global across files if you do this.

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