Re: Static Variables

Flash Gordon <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Richard Heathfield wrote, On 20/02/07 09:57:
akhil.misra@xxxxxxxxx said:

where does a static variable inside a function get stored??

In random access memory, or "RAM" (or, if it's const, it might get put
into read-only memory, or "ROM").

You mean my implementation using pairs of goldfish to store each bit
(one a second the goldfish that knows the current value tells the other
goldfish to "refresh" the bit and stop it from being forgotten) is not a
conforming implementation? Damn.
[...]

Sure it's conforming. There's nothing that says that random access
memory has to be made from semiconductors rather than, say, small
fishes or tiny iron toruses. But your access is likely to be more
random than you really want it to be.

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