Re: small proposed style change

In article <[email protected]>,
David Holland  <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:28:00PM +0100, Marc Balmer wrote:
> > > The style rules should not be suggesting things that no longer
> > > constitute good practices, if they ever did. Any objections?
> > 
> > yes.  Using extern declarations is fine.  They don't necessarly need to
> > go to a separate inlude file.
>
>extern declarations of data should always be in header files so
>they're shared between the uses and the definition. Otherwise nothing
>prevents the definition from being inconsistent with the declaration
>seen at the location of use.
>
>And, I shouldn't need to explain this in 2012. :-p

Not only that extern declarations are file scope not function scope.
Remove the code; it is bogus.

christos