In most cases, once you define a global macro variable, its value is available to you anywhere in the SAS session or job and can be changed anywhere. So, a macro variable referenced inside a macro ...

At least, that's the case if you're talking about local static variables. In C, static variables appear within local procedures, just like other local variables, but they have lifetimes that span the ...

Typically, each thread gets a copy of the local variable and it is initialized once for each particular thread when it executes the particular function.<BR><BR>If you want to have shared memory ...

Note: Macro parameters are always local to the macro that defines them. You cannot make macro parameters global. (Although, you can assign the value of the parameter to a global variable; see ...