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Subject: Static at function prototype
From: umesh.kalap...@gmail.com
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Hi All ,
Was going through the C99 standard @ http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1124.pdf which states that the Function declarators as 

direct-declarator ( parameter-type-list )
parameter-list: parameter-declaration
                      parameter-list , parameter-declaration
parameter-declaration: declaration-specifiers declarator
                              declaration-specifiers abstract-declarator

direct-declarator [ static type-qualifier-listopt assignment-expression ]

where The optional type qualifiers and the keyword static shall appear only in a declaration of a function parameter with an array type, and then only in the outermost
array type derivation and then for each call to the function, the value of the corresponding actual argument shall provide access to the first element of an array with at least as many elements as specified by the size expression.

for example : int func(array[static int i =100) ;

I'm trying to understand that when as a programmar i can use the function prototype like above ??? Please someone can shed some lights here ??


Thanks