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Subject: structure inits
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Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 14:16:52 EST
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Been wanting to know about local, global struct initialization.
I haven't seen this Q addressed;  also, this may be an item for
all this discussion about standardization.

Q: Why is it ok to init a structure in line #7
   but not local like in line #12 ?

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1    struct a {
2         int size;
3         char stuff[25];
4         short flag;
5    };
6    
7    struct a item = { 256000, "Whatever", 1 };
8    
9    any()
10   {
11        struct a item2 = item;                 /* no problem..... */
12        struct a bomb = { 128, "str", 1 };     /* no go for local */
13   }
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...using cc(1) on a Vax 780, running 4.2 BSD

Thanks.

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