Re: Does =?iso-8859-13?q?=B4static=A1_also_provide_type=3F?=

From:
Thomas Flynn <tflynn@gc.cuny.edu>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 30 Dec 2013 09:49:54 GMT
Message-ID:
<6lbwu.120275$2s6.4405@fx16.iad>
Ian Collins wrote:

somenath wrote:

When I try to compile the following code I get error.
struct Test {
    int x;
     struct Test t;
};

int main (void) {
}
g++ -ansi -pedantic test.cpp
test.cpp:3:19: error: field ???t??? has incomplete type

This I can understand. As before the availability of complete ???struct Test??? declaration I am trying to create an object of that type. So compiler is complaining.
But when I change the struct declaration as follows
struct Test {
    int x;
    static struct Test t;
};
I do not get any error. I am not able to understand what role static is playing here? How compiler is able to obtain the complete definition of struct in presence of static key word?


* Please fix the mess that shite google interface with make of your
relies! *

A class static member object isn't part of an instance the class, so the
compiler doesn't need to know its size. Not to mention the infinite
loop that would occur if it was!


Yea it seems to play the role of a const reference that is shared across
all instances. I wrote this little code to understand:

struct Test {
  Test();
  Test(int _x);
  int x;
 
  const Test &t;
};

static Test * st = new Test(10);

Test::Test(int _x):x(_x),t(*this){} //special constructor for first instance
Test::Test():t(*st){} //normal ctor

Then the code:

  Test s;
  s.x = 5;
  printf("s.x: %d\n",s.x);
  printf("s.t.x: %d\n",s.t.t.t.t.x);

Outputs:

5
10

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