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Declarations and Definitions

This declaration includes the keyword 'auto', signifying automatic storage duration. This keyword is obsolete and is effectively redundant. Removing it will have no effect on the behaviour of this declaration.

For example: 


/*PRQA S 2017,3205,3408 ++*/

extern void foo(void)
{
   auto int i;                  /* Message 2007 */
}

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