Scoping question in C

[Henry Spencer]

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 pking123-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org wrote:
> You can test this out yourself with this code, defining a main() and 
> printf'ing the result. On Cygwin, I get nothing (2 carriage returns).

Show us your code, please -- all of it.

The construct being asked about is legitimate standard C and *will* work
on any conforming implementation.  I speak as someone who participated in
developing both versions (C89 and C99) of the C standard, and a member of
the Standards Council of Canada working group that sorts out how Canada
should vote at ISO on new C-standards issues. 

Not only will it work on any conforming implementation, it'll even work on
GCC. :-)  I tried it; it works.  What I wrote was: 

#include <stdio.h>

char *x;

int
func()
{
	x = "something";
	return (1);
}

main() {
	func();
	printf("%s\n", x);
	exit(0);
}

It prints "something" in all of the C implementations I've got handy.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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