Peter, when I used the expression "real C programmers" I were referring to a former employee of mine that whenever I suggested oddities such as global variables always answered "that is not real C".
Several, Re variable storage savings, there is no savings making a static variable accesible only through a function call as comapred to a global variable. Likewise variables in a struct inside main() are just a permanent as globals. I use a mixture of globals, statics and locals and have no problem with either, I am merely looking for the origin of (un)"real C" as practiced by 80% of the "C" programmers.
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