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From: ahodgson@athena.mit.edu (Antony Hodgson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Borland C++ changes static member initialization
Message-ID: <1991Mar7.214212.3371@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 91 21:42:12 GMT
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I tried to recompile some old code under BC++, only to have the linker
fail.  It turns out that static member functions must be explicitly
declared and initialized OUTSIDE the class definition;  apparently this
is in conformance to some ANSI standard.

E.g.

OLD (TC++):  class Static {  static int i; ... }
NEW (BC++):  //  must add the following:
		 int Static::i = INITIALVALUE;

Hope this saves a few $$ in calls to tech support.

Tony Hodgson