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static has various meanings in C/C++. A static
global variable is one that has a scope of the object file, but it cannot
be seen by other object files. A static local variable is one
that is created statically, but has a local scope to limit its
visibility.
A class may contain static data members. This ``overloading'' of
the meaning of static can be confusing. A static data
member of a class is a data member that belongs to the class itself, and
it does not belong to any individual object of the class.