Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
Today, i was a little bit surprised about the behavior of c structure vs c++ structure.
fun.cpp: http://ideone.com/5VLPC
struct nod
{
static int i;
};
int main()
{
return 0;
}
The above program works perfectly.
BUT,
When the same program is run in C environment, it is giving the error:
prog.c:3: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘static’
see here: http://ideone.com/2JRlF
Why it is so?
Because in C++, structs are just classes with default visibility of
public. So in C, the struct is only a aggregation of data, which does not know anything about the fact that it could be percieved as standalone type.See also What are the differences between struct and class in C++