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From: swilson%thetone@Sun.COM (Scott Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: possible THINK C 3.0 bug
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Date: 13 Oct 88 17:06:53 GMT
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Having cried bug at least once too often in my life, I'll put
this in the form of a question.

According to K&R 1st ed. page 198 it says:

	When an initializer applies to a scalar (a pointer or object
	of arithmetic type), it consists of a single expression,
	perhaps in braces.

and K&R 2nd ed. page 219 says:

	The initializer for a pointer or an object of arithmetic type
	is a single expression, perhaps in braces.

yet the following short program produces an error message and will
not compile under THINK C 3.0:

	int x = { 1 };

	main()
	{
	        printf("x = %d\n", x);
	}


The offending line is the first and the error message is "too many
initializers."  Is there any reason why this isn't a bug?


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