>Note that none of the people writing about the issue understand that "static" would confine the scope to one file That seems a bit surprising, unless they did

>Note that none of the people writing about the issue understand that "static" would confine the scope to one file That seems a bit surprising, unless they did not know C even reasonably well. IIRC (though I haven't used C much lately, I did a lot with it earlier), that is a not-too-advanced feature of the C language. I think it is covered in the K&R C book, near the middle or in the latter half (don't have it handy right now to check).