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From: peterc@ecr2.UUCP (Peter Curran)
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Subject: Re: Initialization
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Date: Fri, 7-Jun-85 07:54:42 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  7 07:54:42 1985
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While we are on the subject of initialization...

Does the C standard address the issue of initializing large arrays.
Does it have something like the Fortran syntax "5 * 5" to initialize
five elements to the same value?  I realize you can type them in
if you really know the size, but that doesn't work too well if you
want the size to be controlled by a #define.

The solution right now is to write initialization code, either to run
when the program is started, or as a preprocessor of some sort generating
the required C code.  Neither is very satisfactory.