Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bu-cs!polygen!pablo
From: pablo@polygen.uucp (Pablo Halpern)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: initializing
Message-ID: <24@polygen.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 88 00:49:45 GMT
References: <11276@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: pablo@polygen.UUCP (Pablo Halpern)
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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In article <11276@brl-adm.ARPA> PEPRBV%CFAAMP.BITNET@husc6.harvard.EDU (Bob Babcock) writes:
- If I want to initialize a global variable in an include file, and have
- the initialization statement appear only in the main program, I can use
- something like
- 
-   #ifdef MAIN_PROGRAM
-   #define INITIAL_VALUE(x) =x
-   #else
-   #define INITIAL_VALUE(x)
-   #endif
-   int i INITIAL_VALUE(1);
- 
- But this doesn't work for an array, and I can't figure out anything
- which does.  Is there some trick I'm missing?

Using your existing macros for INITIAL_VALUE(), you should be able
to use the following declaration:

	int i[] INITIAL_VALUE( { 1, 2, 3, 4 } );

Other than a bit of uglyness, do you see anything wrong with that?