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Section 6.2.2 of C99 states that: \[[ISO/IEC 9899:1999|AA. C References#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]\] states that |
If the declaration of a file scope identifier for an object or a function contains the storage-class specifier
static, the identifier has internal linkage.
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Allowing too many objects to have external linkage can use up descriptive identifiers, leading to more complicated identifiers, violations of abstraction models, and possible name conflicts with libraries.
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