RE: lifetime of a static variable

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's the way it seemed to me.  I didn't try it in a named activation
group, but the way it behaved after signing off then signing back on made me
think activation group.  

I'm willing to accept that that's the way it works and code accordingly.
I'm curious why it was designed that way.  I guess I think of a static
variable's lifetime in terms of the way I learned about them in C on the PC
nearly 10 years ago.  Once the main program ended, all _properly managed_
memory was returned to the operating system and the static variable started
with its initialized value at each call to the main program.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pytel@us.ibm.com [mailto:pytel@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 7:52 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: lifetime of a static variable
> 
> 
> 
> Lifetime of ILE static variables by architecture is the lifetime of
> activation group.
> For example, for *DFTACTGRP this means until the end of the job.
> 
>     Alexei Pytel
> 
> 
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