Re: emacs 22.1 on hp-ux 11.11 core dumps when DISPLAY not set

[Richard Stallman]

    I really meant: if they are explicitly initialized and never change,
    is there any need to move them to file scope? In that case, they don't
    actually have to _be_ static, AFAICS, so it's no problem if the HPUX
    stuff defines "static" as a no-op.

If they don't need to be static, it is ok to delete `static'.
But please don't leave them file-scope static.
That is asking for confusion.