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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/572547/what-does-static-mean-in-a-c-program
Static could be used for (1) variable and (2) function.
(1) is the more foreign topic if you're a newbie, so here's an example:
#include
void foo()
{
int a = 10;
static int sa = 10;
a += 5;
sa += 5;
printf("a = %d, sa = %d
", a, sa);
}
int main()
{
int i;
for (i = 0; i < 10; ++i)
foo();
}
This prints:
a = 15, sa = 15
a = 15, sa = 20
a = 15, sa = 25
a = 15, sa = 30
a = 15, sa = 35
a = 15, sa = 40
a = 15, sa = 45
a = 15, sa = 50
a = 15, sa = 55
a = 15, sa = 60
This is useful for cases where a function needs to keep some state between invocations, and you don't want to use global variables. Beware, however, this feature should be used very sparingly - it makes your code not thread-safe and harder to understand.
(2) Is used widely as an "access control" feature. If you have a .c file implementing some functionality, it usually exposes only a few "public" functions to users. The rest of its functions should be made static
, so that the user won't be able to access them. This is encapsulation, a good practice.
Quoting Wikipedia:
In the C programming language, static is used with global variables and functions to set their scope to the containing file. In local variables, static is used to store the variable in the statically allocated memory instead of the automatically allocated memory. While the language does not dictate the implementation of either type of memory, statically allocated memory is typically reserved in data segment of the program at compile time, while the automatically allocated memory is normally implemented as a transient call stack.
See here and here for more details.
And to answer your second question, it's not like in C#.
In C++, however, static
is also used to define class attributes (shared between all objects of the same class) and methods. In C there are no classes, so this feature is irrelevant.
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-The value of a static variable in a function is retained between repeated function calls to the same function.
-static variables are allocated on the heap
-static variables do not retain its old value between function calls
-The scope of static variable is local to the block in which it is defined.
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