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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>, 	gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [commit] Cleanup display.c (and a bit of tracepoint.c too)
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:26:00 -0000
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 08:31:02 -0400
>> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
>> Cc: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>> 
>> > Aren't there compilers out there which insist on forward declarations
>> > for static functions?
>> 
>> I surely hope not; to the best of my understanding that would be a
>> violation of the C standard.
>
> Which part of the standard invalidates that?

The standard does not require it, so a conforming compiler must accept it.

Andreas.

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