There are many topics in the C language that often confuse developers but the use of the static keyword seems to be one of the more common. One of the points of confusion is how static affects ...

One of our favorite nuances of the C programming language (and its descendants) is the static keyword. It’s a little bit tricky to get your head around at first, because it can have two (or three) ...

My question is simple. Is a static local variable's initialization thread safe? <br><br>Acording to Stroustrup: <blockquote class="ip-ubbcode-quote"> <font size="-1 ...

Gilad makes the case that static, that staple of C++, C#/VB.NET, and Java, does not belong: Most imperative languages have some notion of static variable. This is unfortunate, since static variables ...

In Java, you can have a section of code inside a class definition that looks like this:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">code:</font><HR><pre><BR> static {<BR ...