What does it mean if you put more that one static modifier before a variable?
c, ios, objective-c
Solution
I'm not an Objective-C developer, but does the language allow for an arbitrary ordering of modifiers (e.g. static volatile extern)? If so, then it's probably a benign bug in the compiler that after reading a modifier ("`static`" in this case) returns to a state where it accepts any modifier terminal again, and will do until it encounters the variable's type. Continual `static` declarations wouldn't contradict any prior modifiers so it wouldn't raise any errors; so based on this I would expect `volatile volatile volatile int x;` to also work.
Problem
I was just fooling around in Xcode and I discovered that the following statement compiles and it doesn't even raise a warning let alone an error: ``` static static static int static long static var[5]; ``` What's up with that? Does this make it super-DUPER static? :) All joking aside, why does the compiler permit repeating the static modifier? Is there actually a reason to allow people to do this or were the people who wrote the compiler too lazy to make this raise an error?