[Solved] can you assign initial value to global static variable in C? [closed]

Question

Yes you can, why did you think you can’t? But if the value is 0 you can skip the initialization since static variables are automatically initialized to 0. Also, as @M.M commented here it’s mandatory that the value is a constant, you can’t assign the result of malloc() for instance.

There is no potential problem, and there is no reason to think that there would be a problem. Except integer overflow, in your code that’s pretty sure going to happen but it has nothing to do with the storage class of your variable.

Accepted Answer

Yes you can, why did you think you can’t? But if the value is 0 you can skip the initialization since static variables are automatically initialized to 0. Also, as @M.M commented here it’s mandatory that the value is a constant, you can’t assign the result of malloc() for instance.

There is no potential problem, and there is no reason to think that there would be a problem. Except integer overflow, in your code that’s pretty sure going to happen but it has nothing to do with the storage class of your variable.