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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Initialisation of Character Arrays
Keywords: initialisation
Message-ID: <14469@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 15 Nov 90 19:11:01 GMT
References: <12585@ganymede.inmos.co.uk>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <12585@ganymede.inmos.co.uk> bj@inmos.co.uk (John Honniball) writes:
-static          char s1[] = "String One";
-static unsigned char s2[] = "String Two";
-static signed   char s3[] = "String Three";
-gcc -c -ansi -pedantic u.c
-u.c:2: warning: ANSI C forbids string initializer except for `char' elements
-u.c:3: warning: ANSI C forbids string initializer except for `char' elements

Compiler error.  3.5.7, as you pointed out, says that an array of
character type may be initialized by a character string literal.
"Character type" is formally defined in 3.1.2.5.