static arguments

[Chris Torek]

In article <170 at njitcccc.UUCP> ron at njitcccc.UUCP (Ron DeBlock) writes:
>[Someone] accidently declared the arguments to his function as
>static [...].  I realize that it really makes no sense to do that,
>but the compiler did not flag the "error". [...]  The question is,
>are static arguments legal even though they make no sense?

No.

>If not, why doesn't the compiler flag the problem?

It is buggy.  The 4.3BSD C compiler, whatever its faults, gets this
one right: it complains about an `illegal class'.
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