From: gazelle@shell.xmission.com

Wow!  An actual on-topic C question.  Don't see much of that around here
these days...

My question has to do specifically with "static" - as seen below - but also
in general with these sorts of attributes of functions and variables.

Suppose I have code like this:

/* static */ char *foo(int);
int somefun(...) { code that uses foo() }
...

static char *foo(int bar) { definition of foo() }

Is foo() static or not?  Does the order matter?  Suppose the first reference
to foo() had static and the second one didn't?

Or is it a syntax error to have different declarations/definitions like
this?  What if they occur (as they usually will do) in different files (TUs) ?

Note that this came up in real life - I had to change a function that had
been static to non-static and was concerned about what would happen if I
didn't change it in every place.  I didn't do much testing and decided to
post here instead.

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