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Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man9/style.9')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man9/style.9 | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/style.9 b/share/man/man9/style.9 index 3a91dc4..c7ccd25 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/style.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/style.9 @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ .\" From: @(#)style 1.14 (Berkeley) 4/28/95 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd July 9, 2008 +.Dd February 10, 2005 .Dt STYLE 9 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -640,8 +640,11 @@ DO NOT use function calls in initializers. four = myfunction(); .Ed .Pp -Do not declare functions inside other functions; nested functions are -a GCC extension and are not permitted by ANSI C. +Do not declare functions inside other functions; ANSI C says that +such declarations have file scope regardless of the nesting of the +declaration. +Hiding file declarations in what appears to be a local +scope is undesirable and will elicit complaints from a good compiler. .Pp Casts and .Ic sizeof Ns 's |
