Re: "common" symbols are no longer common?!?!?!

[Lloyd Parkes <lloyd%must-have-coffee.gen.nz@localhost>]

On Sat, 2025-02-22 at 18:24 +0000, David Holland wrote:
> 
> Or fix the code. Commons exist to support FORTRAN notions about
> linking; using them from C has always been a bug.
> 

I was always under the impression that the C language has never allowed
FORTRAN commons. This being a lazy Sunday morning I decided to waste
some time by checking my copy of K&R, and sure enough section 11.2
makes it quite clear that defining a variable multiple times without
the "extern" keyword has been wrong since 1978.

I suppose we could always wait another three years before fixing our
code so that we could make it a nice round 50 years?

[I don't mean any disrepect to anyone who has suggested doing something
other than fix the code, but 1978 you know.]

Ngā mihi,
Lloyd