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From: Michael_Hoennig@hh.maus.de (Michael Hoennig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: private static
Message-ID: <4560@hh.maus.de>
Date: 17 Jun 91 19:46:00 GMT
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Hi Bob,

BB>1.  How do I explicitly initialise a private static member variable?
You _MUST_ define it like this:

class fred
{
        static int fd;          // file descriptor; 0 is legit
};

int fred::fd = -1;

BB>2.  The following pair of statements appears to be legitimate in C,
BB>    but not in C++:
BB>        typedef char byte;
BB>        unsigned byte thing;

This would be a bug in your C compiler. It treats typedef's as
defines. But typedefs aren't defines!

Adios

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