Is there anything in the standards that we can't call static member function through objects...because everywhere i read it says that we call static member function by class name instead of object...but calling static member functions through object does works in all compilers....
I know that no implicit this pointer is passed in the static member functions...but is there any performance benefit by calling it though class name instead of objects.

No.
Yes. We can call it. But there is one restriction, which you would already know.
Yes. It will work.
There is one benefit: Why confuse the program with calling it with an object?

Regards,
Paramesh.

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So you mean..no performance benefit?

Yes. There is no difference..


Paramesh.

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