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From: lrg7030@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren  Rittle)
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Subject: Re: "chip" in SAS C
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Date: 8 Jan 91 07:09:45 GMT
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johnl@SDFSUN1.hac.com (John Lee) writes:
> Aha!  There's the rub...  You cannot initialize aggregate automatic variables.
> You'll need to make it static by:  1) moving it outside the procedure, making 
> it global, or 2) inserting the storage class keyword 'static' in front.       
>                                                                              
> I still think the SAS/C error message is oblique.  I hate it when programs do 
> that.

No, that is not the rub :-).  SAS/C v5.10 (and the past few before it)
fully supports the initialization of aggregate automatic variables as
per the ANSI standard.  So, in other words, you don't know what you are
talking about.  The reason, as stated in other messages, is that the chip
and the auto (implied in this case) keywords are incompatible with one
another.  If you know what an lvalue is the error message makes perfect
sense, otherwise read pages 195-197 of K&R's second edition (Keep in mind
that chip is a type qualifier).
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Loren J. Rittle lrg7030@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu