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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Expressions in initializers
Keywords: initializers
Message-ID: <15380@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 4 Mar 91 16:45:22 GMT
References: <760@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <760@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> rabbieh@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Harold Rabbie) writes:
-Here's one for the comp.lang.c.lawyers - K&R 2 says (without explanation)
-that non-constant expressions can be used as initializers only for static 
-scalars, not for automatics, and not for aggregates.

That's not what MY copy of K&R2 says, nor is it what the C standard says.