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From: dave@ur-helheim.UUCP (Raver Dave)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Structure initialization rules question
Message-ID: <657@ur-helheim.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-May-86 13:07:18 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 22 13:07:18 1986
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In article <696@moscom.UUCP> noemi@moscom.UUCP (Noemi Berry) writes:
>
>	Why is it that you can only initialize structures when they are global
>	(outside of main() )? 

>noemi berry
>{allegra|decvax|seismo}!rochester!moscom!noemi
>"On a souvent besoin de plus petit que soi"

K&R p120 (as in the index):
"An 'external' or 'static' structure can be initialized by...
a list of initializers for the components."

So the 'reason' is most likely that this initialization occurs
at compile time and not at runtime, since the latter could be very
costly.

Raver Dave