question about static variables and extern in plain C

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Published on 2010-05-06T03:44:40Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 3:48 UTC
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Is there a difference between declaring a static variable outside of a function and declaring a static variable inside a function?

Also, what's the difference between declaring a variable as static and just declaring an extern variable?

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