If an object or a function does not need to be visible outside the current scope, it should be hidden by being declared as static. This creates more modular code and limits pollution of the global name space. If the compilation unit implements a data abstraction, it may also expose invocations of private functions from outside the abstraction.
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Section 6.2.2 of C99 \[[ISO/IEC 9899:1999|AA. C References#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]\] states that |
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