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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: question about linker
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 11:15:44 +0000
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Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
....
> If I write this
>
>   int *A, B[10], C(int);
>
> My compiler tells me that:
>
>   A is a local variable with type 'ref i32' (expressed in other syntax)
>   B is a local variable with type '[10]i32'
>   C is a function with return type of 'i32', taking one unnamed
>     parameter of type 'i32'.
>
> (Interestingly, it places C into module scope, so the same declaration can
> also create names in different scopes!)

A small correction: that declaration gives all three names the same
scope[1].  You are confusing scope with linkage.

[1] Well almost the same.  The scope of A includes the declarators for B
and C, and the scope of B includes the declarator for C.
-- 
Ben.