What does extern mean in a function declaration?

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What does extern mean in a function declaration?

extern is significant only with data declarations. In function declarations, it can be used as a stylistic hint to indicate that the function's definition is probably in another source file, but there is no formal difference between

extern int f();
and
int f();

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