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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ruby: extern linkage portability improvement
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Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:

> Some C compilers are stricter when it comes to (tentative) definition
> of a variable -- in those compilers introducing variable without 'extern'
> keyword always allocates new 'storage' to the variable and linking all
> these modules fails due to duplicate symbols.

LGTM