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From: filisa@albert.ai.mit.edu (Filisa Vistima)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: initialization of automatic structures/unions
Message-ID: <13599@life.ai.mit.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 21:49:23 GMT
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If such a construct such as this is illegal (says my compiler):

	struct Stuff { int i, j, k, l; };

	int main(argc, char ** argv)  {
		struct Stuff stuffy = { 0, 0, 0, 0 };  /* illegal part */
	}

Can someone give me a good reason why initializing automatic
structures/unions is illegal?

Thanks.

filisa