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From: brucee@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Bruce Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Compile-time initialization (was Re: Is this bad programming?)
Keywords: #define array definition
Message-ID: <2157@runxtsa.runx.oz.au>
Date: 11 Aug 90 05:50:11 GMT
References: <1990Aug8.100614.1223@resam.dk> <17300@haddock.ima.isc.com>
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In article <17300@haddock.ima.isc.com> karl@kelp.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>I recently proposed an extension to allow labeled initializers:
>	#define FILE_FOOTER_ERROR  1
>	#define DRAW_FOOTER_ERROR  2
>	char errortext[3][40] = {
>	    0:                 "234567890123456789012345678901234567890",
>	    DRAW_FOOTER_ERROR: "Draw footer error",
>	    FILE_FOOTER_ERROR: "File footer error",
>	};
>This might make it into gcc (and maybe from there into C-2001?).

What about allowing initialization by assignment?

	char errortext[3][40];
	...
	errortext[0] = "234567890123456789012345678901234567890";
	...
	errortext[DRAW_FOOTER_ERROR = "Draw footer error";
	...
	errortext[FILE_FOOTER_ERROR = "File footer error";

And similarly for structures.
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Bruce Evans
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