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Question didn't ask about static specific to classes.

We can explain a static method in terms of a class or as a normal non-class function.

A staic method in a class's role is to use the static data members only.
and staic method can be accessed by a static/non-static class object.
But a static method cannot have non-static access to the data-members.
And static method cnnot be constant, volatile and virtual.

Now, static non-class method: A staic keyword in front of a non-class method is used to limit the method scope to the current compilation unit. It has internal linkage and one can use this principal in C for information hiding, while class's static method/data-member has external-linkage.
e.g.
In abc.cpp/c
static void print_some_data()
{
}
is limited in abc.cpp/c only, no other compilation unit in an application can use it.

A static method is not bound to an instance of a class. It does not need a class instance to access it. But to access other (non-static) members of the class from the static method, we need to declare a class instance inside static method.

Static Initializer Block is concept of Java. Do we really have this in C++?
Is it same as Initialization of Static variables.

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we use static so tht there is no need to acces tht method or data thro an object..
eg. in Java,C# we use..

public static void main(String args[])
{ }

bcoz de prog is started from main, the compiler vil not create an object to access this method and from here the execution begins..