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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:
[...]
> Where the rules came from is partially answered by the Rationale
> for ANSI C, where it discusses the various linkage models for external
> names that were in the wild.
>
> The "ISO-ized" version of the Rationale is found here:
>
> https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n850.pdf
[...]

N850 is an early version of the C9x (later C99) Rationale.
A later version is at

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/WG14/www/C99RationaleV5.10.pdf

The ANSI C (C89/C90) Rationale doesn't appear to be available on

the WG14 website.  There's a generated HTML version at :
https://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~pjj/cs211/c_rationale/rat.html

and it's available (currently for $7.96) on Google Play Books.

There are no official published rationale documents for later
versions of the C standard.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */