Why is this code accepted?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr 17, 2001, nbecker@fred.net wrote:

> If it doesn't work shouldn't gcc reject it?

Nope.  How would GCC tell that the static data member isn't going to
be defined in another translation unit?  That's why this rule doesn't
require a diagnostic from the compiler.

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