Why is this the output?

Question

I've got this code in C++***:

template<class T>
void f(T){
static int i = 0;
cout << ++i;}
int main(){
f(1);
f(1.0);
f(1);}

Why is the output 112 and not 123? Clearly the program does run for f(1.0), because it would've been 12 otherwise, but why doesn't it add 1 then?

Answer 1

first, this is not java code. It is C++.

Running the code through gdb shows two different copies of the function f being made each with it's own local copy of i. so for the 1.0 call, you get 1 on output.

Answer 2

Of course! Thanks!