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<a href="https://gitlab.com/dueno" style="color: #1068bf;">Daiki Ueno</a>
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<p dir="auto" style="color: #303030; margin: 0 0 16px;" align="initial">That's not correct; see 6.2.2 of <a href="https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" style="color: #1068bf; margin-top: 0;">n1250</a>:</p>
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<p style="color: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0;">There are three kinds of linkage: external, internal, and none.
[...]
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.
[...]
If the declaration of an identifier for an object has file scope and no storage-class specifier,
its linkage is external.
If you check with <code style='font-size: 90%; color: #1f1f1f; word-wrap: break-word; background-color: #f0f0f0; border-radius: 4px; margin-top: 0; font-weight: inherit; font-family: "Menlo", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Liberation Mono", "Consolas", "Ubuntu Mono", "Courier New", "andale mono", "lucida console", monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: keep-all; padding: 2px 4px;'>nm -g random.o</code>, you will see something like <code style='font-size: 90%; color: #1f1f1f; word-wrap: break-word; background-color: #f0f0f0; border-radius: 4px; font-weight: inherit; font-family: "Menlo", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Liberation Mono", "Consolas", "Ubuntu Mono", "Courier New", "andale mono", "lucida console", monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: keep-all; padding: 2px 4px;'>0000000000000000 B rnd_initialized</code>.</p>
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