[docs] [issue31443] Possibly out of date C extension documentation

[Stefan Krah]

Stefan Krah added the comment:

FWIW, I've been using

  https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Modules/_decimal/_decimal.c#L689


the static initialization on problematic platforms like Windows and
AIX for years, without any problems.


I'm sure this is valid C, and people here agree:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6989107/cant-initialize-static-structure-with-function-pointer-from-another-translation


Perhaps this was an issue on very old IRIX systems or similar?

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