Forward Referencing of Static Variables OK?

[Michael Meissner]

In article <1893 at brl-tgr.ARPA> gwyn at BRL.ARPA (VLD/VMB) writes:
>extern int thing;
>...
>static int thing = 0;
>
>is perfectly legitimate according to X3J11.
>Why waste time trying to relate this to K&R (not K&P).
>Point out to your compiler supplier that they're
>going to have to fix this anyway.
>

Sorry that is wrong.  The only thing that ANSI X3J11 allows is:

	static int thing = 0;

	foo(){
		float thing;

		/*...*/

		{
			extern int thing;	/* refers to static above */
		}
	}

Ie, the first declaration MUST be static.

Michael Meissner, Data General, ...{ihnp4, decvax}!mcnc!rti-sel!rtp47!meissner