On 07.06.2012 23:04, Kagamin wrote:
On Thursday, 7 June 2012 at 14:29:24 UTC, Regan Heath wrote:
In the quoted passage above I suspect he was referring to a
static/global variable defined in a C header, not a C++ class member
static or otherwise.
I'm pretty sure you can define (with storage) global variable in header
file both in C and C++.
Indeed you can. Kind of anti-pattern.
But don't qualify it static in C: this will make
it hidden symbol so you will have several instances of the variable but
no symbol collision.
Some libraries actually count on something like this, but I can't
remember offhand. Logging probably?
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Dmitry Olshansky
