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From: g3f@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Wayne Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Initilization of global structures
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Date: 2 May 90 17:27:23 GMT
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Reply-To: g3f@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Wayne Scott)
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In article <9005020423.AA05715@en.ecn.purdue.edu> wscott@EN.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Wayne H Scott) writes:
>
>I am having some problems with a program I am writing.  This might be very
>simple but I can't figure it out.
>
>I have several global arrays that hold constant information as arrays of 
>structures. (weapon data, race data, ...)  I also have a global array of player
>information that has some arrays of number of weapons.  The problem I am having
>is that I want the compiler to be able to figure out how many weapons are 
>defined in the structure and use that number to define the player structure.
>

Perhaps I should have been more clear about what my problem is.  I have no
problem specifing the starting values for the array.  My problem is that I don't
want to have a fixed constant for the number of elements in the array.  I want
the compiler to figure that out.  The sizeof trick I used in the posting does
that for the globals.c file but the number is not a constant so I can define
another structure with a fixed sized array in it.

I was sent one reasonable way using alot of preprocessor tricks, but it seems
like it should be easier.

Wayne Scott
wscott@en.ecn.purdue.edu