-2003-11-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
+2003-11-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
- * src/xheader.c (xhdr_tab): Include bounds in forward declaration,
- as C89 and C99 require this.
+ * src/xheader.c (xhdr_tab): Make it extern, not static, as C89 and
+ C99 require this.
2003-10-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
void (*decoder) (struct tar_stat_info *, char const *);
};
-/* This declaration must specify the number of elements in xhdr_tab,
- because ISO C99 section 6.9.2 prohibits a tentative definition that
- has both internal linkage and incomplete type. */
-static struct xhdr_tab const xhdr_tab[13];
+/* This declaration must be extern, because ISO C99 section 6.9.2
+ prohibits a tentative definition that has both internal linkage and
+ incomplete type. If we made it static, we'd have to declare its
+ size which would be a maintenance pain; if we put its initializer
+ here, we'd need a boatload of forward declarations, which would be
+ even more of a pain. */
+extern struct xhdr_tab const xhdr_tab[];
static struct xhdr_tab const *
locate_handler (char const *keyword)
assign_string (&st->uname, arg);
}
-static struct xhdr_tab const xhdr_tab[] = {
+struct xhdr_tab const xhdr_tab[] = {
{ "atime", atime_coder, atime_decoder },
{ "comment", dummy_coder, dummy_decoder },
{ "charset", dummy_coder, dummy_decoder },