Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!dahlia!dsebbo
From: dsebbo@dahlia.uwaterloo.ca (David Ebbo)
Subject: Re: initialization of automatic structures/unions
Message-ID: <1991Mar2.022652.24587@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <13599@life.ai.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1991 02:26:52 GMT
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In article <13599@life.ai.mit.edu> filisa@albert.ai.mit.edu (Filisa Vistima) writes:
>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.

It's not illegal.  You're just using a compiler that's not very standard.
Also, although this is not related to your problem, you forgot to give a type
to argc (i.e. you should have 'int argc').

David Ebbo.