interchanging int and static

[destination]

static int i;
int static i;

Can i interchange static and int while defining a variable.

[weaknessforcats]

What does your compiler say about this? Did it complain?

[Banfa]

Not to mention why would you want to?

[destination]

The compiler didnot complain.
I just asked it to know if this is possible there is no other reason for that.

[weaknessforcats]

Then it's OK.

Some programmers prefer:

int static i;

because parsing right to left you read "i is a static int".

Others prefer:

static int i;

because they read right to left: " i is an int that is static".

It comes down to emphasizing the fact that i is static or that i is an int.

You will find this also works for const:

const int i = 0;
int const i = 0;

Also, in C (but not C++) you can even omit the int because int is the default type in C. Default-int is not supported in C++.

[donbock]

Default-int is explicitly deprecated in the C99 Standard. This is considered fair warning by the Standards people that the feature might well be deleted from the next version of the Standard.

On the other hand, it is common for compilers to have some mechanism (perhaps a command line argument) to make the compiler compliant with earlier versions of the Standard in order to support legacy code.