From ad9a9ac8bc1e9d7ffc81caad230055e3b37713ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hallvard Furuseth <hallvard@openldap.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 04:49:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add "avoid extern in .c files".

---
 CODING.RULES | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CODING.RULES b/CODING.RULES
index fd802202c8..146259a099 100644
--- a/CODING.RULES
+++ b/CODING.RULES
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ designed to be equivalent to standard C's <xxx.h> file.
 
 Nonstatic function and variable definitions in .c files should be
 preceded by their declarations in .h files.  Avoid implicit function
-declarations.
+declarations.  Avoid external declarations in .c files.
 
 When a function returns non-void, it should return a meaningful value.
 Avoid implicit int.
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ coordinate activities there.
 Do not commit a patch, however small, without at least testing that it
 compiles.
 
-In general, the patch/bugfix should be applied to -devel and tested.
+In general, a patch/bugfix should be applied to -devel and tested.
 When the patch is considered stable, then it can be merged into -stable.
 Same goes for other release engineering branches (like
 OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_1_1).  (-stable is rel eng 1.0).