From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
To: hjl@lucon.org
Cc: tm@netcom.com, gcc2@cygnus.com, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: another binutils-2.8.1 bug?
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 00:31:00 -0000
Message-id: <199801110627.WAA17951@shade.twinsun.com>
References: <m0xr8it-0004ecC@ocean.lucon.org>
X-SW-Source: 1998-01/msg00273.html

   From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
   Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 13:45:43 -0800 (PST)

   > Evidently, if you change a static function into a non-static function, 
   > but the static prototype is left floating around, GCC converts the 
   > function to a static automatically, which seems rather dangerous.

   I don't know what ANSI C says on it.

ANSI C requires that behavior.

It might be nice if GCC warned about the situation, but I don't think
it's dangerous all that often.  All that happens is that the function
is unexpectedly static, which normally just leads to a link error.