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From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@redhat.com>
To: Tony Ko <nhko@gctsemi.com>
Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] what for "static"?
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 04:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B5C0C79.3FAA574@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9860C773D04D834D83FD6FAD00A61E930F2039@gctsemi.gctsemi.com>

Tony Ko wrote:
> 
> hi.
> look, " static void eth_drv_send(struct ifnet *);"
> this is prototype declaration on eth_drv.c.
> 
> why is static used on prototype declaration?

Because it is a static function! It needs to be declared if it is used
before it is defined.
 
Jifl
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      reply	other threads:[~2001-07-23  4:37 UTC|newest]

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2001-07-22 20:33 Tony Ko
2001-07-23  4:37 ` Jonathan Larmour [this message]

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