Bulletin number:  278
Products affected: D711D D611A D511A
Description: static/extern conflicts
Component: compiler
Date: Mon May 21 13:09:50 BST 1990
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If the declarations static int i; and extern int i; appear in the same
source file, some C compilers treat the extern reference to i as being 
satisfied by the local static definition. This compiler treats these
two occurences of i as distinct objects, and requires that an external
definition of i appears in some module (otherwise the linker complains
that the symbol i is not defined).