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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: static list initialization
Message-ID: <8694@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 17 Oct 88 05:03:35 GMT
References: <196@donk.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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In article <196@donk.UUCP> ajw@donk.UUCP (ajw) writes:
>Question is, is there a way to achieve this initialization within
>the letter of the law, leaving 'head' and 'tail' both static?

Do the following in sequence:
	declare "tail" to be a struct whatever (an incomplete type)
	declare what a "struct whatever" looks like
	initialize a declaration of "tail"
I don't have a copy of the standard at hand, but I think that's
supposed to work.