From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Recursions and Static declarations....?Is this wrong...
Date: 19 Jul 2002 08:52:42 GMT
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In comp.os.msdos.djgpp Pradeepto K Bhattacharya <pradeeptob AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:

>     Well I tried to write this function...it is crashing the computer
> If i compile it with BorlandC++ 3 , DevC++ 4, LCC-Win32...but it works
> pretty fine If I use Djgpp.

If so, that's purely by luck, not by design.  Your function is very broken.

[...]
>   Can I not use Static with recursions...

No, you can't.  At least not sensibly, in the way you did it.  You
shouldn't be recursing for this, in the first place, nor should you
ever use static variables to keep state across a recursion call.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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