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From: jeff@cjsa.WA.COM (Jeffery Small)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Problem initializing a structure
Message-ID: <154@cjsa.WA.COM>
Date: 14 Dec 88 18:27:31 GMT
Organization: C. Jeffery Small and Associates - Woodinville, WA
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Given the following sample test program:

-- sample program -------------------------------------------------------

#include <stdio.h>

static char *menu[] = { "aaa", "bbb", "ccc", 0 };

typedef struct {
	char  **mptr;
	char  *item;
} TEST;

TEST X = { menu, 0 };

main()
{
    X.item = menu[0];

    (void) printf("\t\t%s  %s  %s  %s\n", *menu, menu[0], menu[1], menu[2]);
    return(0);
}
-- end of program -------------------------------------------------------

If you compile and run this program you get the following results:

		aaa  aaa  bbb  ccc

as expected, confirming that *menu and menu[?] are pointers to chars.

Now, what I actually want to do is to assign the value to X.item in the 
initialization statement rather than the assignment statement.  So I make
the following change to the program:

...

TEST X = { menu, *menu };

	-- or --

TEST X = { menu, menu[0] };

...

but when I attempt to compile this I get:

>	"z.c", line 10: illegal initialization

and lint says:

>	(10)  illegal initialization

So my question is why doesn't this initialization work and what should I
actually be doing?

I am working on an AT&T 3B1 running OS3.51 (some hybrid of SYSV.2).
Thanks for any help you may be able to offer.
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