size of static data member

[agoswami]

Hi,
When I I tried to determine the size of static data member and found the size of class was 1. Could anyone explain the reason?.

#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
class sample
{
static int data;
};

int sample:: data =10;

int main()
{
cout<<sizeof(sample)<<endl;
return 0;
}


output :1

I was expecting 4 on the linux machine. any pointer

[agoswami]

After googling i got following answer but not sure about the validity of the answer
http://bytes.com/topic/c/answers/500180-essense-static-data-member-class

[Bazzy]

sizeof(sample) operator returns the size that an object of type sample would have
Functions and static members don't modify it