nah, by looking ad other people's firmware it's because most of my embedded colleagues are goats stuck in pre-ANSI C. You can always declare a "global" static,

nah, by looking ad other people's firmware it's because most of my embedded colleagues are goats stuck in pre-ANSI C. You can always declare a "global" static, so it's not on the stack or heap, and access that via functions. Nothing wrong with source-file-level statics, you're bound to use them