[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Why av_log functions are declared as extern?

Luca Abeni lucabe72
Mon Apr 14 11:47:14 CEST 2008


Hi all,

Michel Bardiaux wrote:
[...]
> Indeed that is consistent with the style of say avcodec.h.
> 
> But then why is there "extern void fprintf" in stdio.h?

I suspect the real question is: what's the point in adding
the "extern" keyword to the prototype of a function?


			Luca





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