>You're confusing static with constant. A static area >is allocated to a single address for every allocation.
I'd say that it is C that confused static with constant. Humans would think of static data as being constant (at least constant once loaded). "Writeable static" is, to me, an oxymoron. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN