Ars Technica

Static class member value destroyed before the instance of the class itself with GCC but not with Clang?

Consider a simple class of which I create only a single instance (global variable), and that has a number of static member variables, one of which (s_lmdbEnv) is an instance of a C++ wrapper class of ...
Ars Technica

Thread safety of static local variables in C++

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 ...
Hackaday

Embed With Elliot: The Static Keyword You Don’t Fully Understand

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) ...
EDN

Using the static keyword in C

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 ...