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Date:      Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:57:29 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/touch touch.1 touch.c
Message-ID:  <20070410165729.GH2382@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070410094659.49041afb@conflict.ca.sophos.com>
References:  <200704090219.l392Jc1f064727@repoman.freebsd.org> <864pnpdf8w.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20070410010901.GD61460@wantadilla.lemis.com> <86zm5gr9wl.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20070410071256.GJ91694@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20070410094659.49041afb@conflict.ca.sophos.com>

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The reason you make it static is so that when you add another file to
the build, there is no need to track down what should be
static.


* Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> [070410 09:49] wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:42:56 +0930
> "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday, 10 April 2007 at  9:00:42 +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
> > > Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > >> On Monday,  9 April 2007 at 12:16:47 +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
> > >>> The latter part is incorrect and should be reverted.  Furthermore,
> > >>> usage() should be static.
> > >> Can you give details?
> > >
> > > usage() should be the way it was before your commit, except that it
> > > should be static.
> > 
> > You mean declared as a static function?  In a program of a single
> > file?
> > 
> > As I said before,
> > 
> > >> Can you give details?
> > 
> > Specifically, this doesn't match my recollection of "good practice".
> > Where is this behaviour mandated?
> 
> Bump WARNS?  Every function should be either prototyped
> or declared static (or both).
> 
> -- 
> Brian Somers                                       <brian@Awfulhak.org>
> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !            <brian@FreeBSD.org>

-- 
- Alfred Perlstein



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