Linkage computation for non-objects/non-functions in C

[Abramo Bagnara]

>From some checks I've done it seems that the linkage returned for
non-object/non-function declarations might be different from no linkage
also in C (in C++ this is perfectly fine)

This would be contrary to the all the C standards (*).

I'm missing something? There is a reason for such behavior?

(*) C11 6.2.2p6

The following identifiers have no linkage: an identifier declared to be
anything other than
an object or a function; an identifier declared to be a function
parameter; a block scope
identifier for an object declared without the storage-class specifier
extern.

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