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From: ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: forward declaration of array; how?
Keywords: ANSI, forward, static, array
Message-ID: <2364@munnari.oz.au>
Date: 10 Oct 89 00:51:14 GMT
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I have a program which uses a statically initialised array of function
pointers (a couple of hundred of them).  At the moment, the file which
contains the array looks like
	...
	extern void (*(dispatch[]))();
	...
	void foo() { ... (*dispatch[i])(); ... }
	...
	void baz() { ... (*dispatch[j])(); ... }
	...
	static void (*(dispatch[]))() = { ... foo, ..., baz, ... };
	...
I want to make the program ANSI-conformation.  GCC prints a warning about
this; it doesn't like dispatch[] being extern and static both.  Neither
do I, but it was the only way I could talk another C compiler into accepting
it.  How should I organise this in ANSI C?  I'd really rather _not_ add
a couple of hundred function prototypes.