If a file-scope object or a function does not need to be visible outside of the file, it should be hidden by being declared as static. This creates more modular code and limits pollution of the global name space.
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If the declaration of a file scope identifier for an object or a function contains the storage-class specifier
static, the identifier has internal linkage.
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