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From: brianc@cognos.uucp (Brian Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: possible structure initialization bug
Message-ID: <1287@cognos.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 10:42:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: cognos.1287
Posted: Wed Aug 19 10:42:49 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 05:29:56 EDT
References: <352@mcdsun.UUCP>
Reply-To: brianc@cognos.UUCP (Brian Campbell)
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <352@mcdsun.UUCP> fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes:
> [ question as to whether following is valid initialization ]
> struct {
>     int foo[2][2];
> } bar = {
>     {1, 2, 3, 4}
> };

   Is this really a *struct* initialization question, or a two-
dimensional array initialization question?  According to K&R (Sec. 5.7):

   "An array is initialized by a list of initializers in braces; each
   row of a two-dimensional array is initialized by a corresponding
   sub-list."
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