Difference between initialization of static variables in C and C++

Question

I was going through the code at http://geeksforgeeks.org/?p=10302

#include
int initializer(void)
{
    return 50;
}

int main()
{
    static i         


        

Answer 1

Static variables in C need to be initialised with a value known at compile time. This requirement has been removed in C++, and you can initialise them with expressions evaluated at run-time.

The two languages differ in this, and many, many other respects. You can quite easily write C code which will be acceptable to a C++ compiler, but the reverse is not true.