static variables and multiple .c files

[Simon]

Hi,

I have been searching through the forums and I am aware that you cannot link multiple .c files, you have to #include them.

What I am wondering is how this affects the ability to use the static key word. I would like to create device drivers and some state machines which would be split into multiple .c files, and there is the possibility that I need "file specific static globals". I don't want them to be referenced outside of the device driver, and I don't want to have to trawl through my libraries to ensure that I haven't used a duplicate variable name...

Can I achieve this? I figure I can't but thought I would ask.

Thanks,
Simon

[PCM programmer]

[Simon]

Thanks, I figured as much... still a very unsatisfactory way of doing things because when someone else uses the code they have access to variables they are not supposed to be using...

[Mark]