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c - what is the advantage of static function?

see in one project source code i have seen belows declaration

static int *foo();

so it declare foo as static function returning pointer to int. So here i wana ask you whats the purpose of declaring function as static ?

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The function's name isn't visible outside the translation unit (source file) in which it's declared, and won't conflict with another function foo in another source file.

In general, functions should probably be declared static unless you have a specific need to call it from another source file.

(Note that it's only the name that's not visible. It can still be called from anywhere in the program via a pointer.)


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