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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pointer Stew
Message-ID: <10222@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 7 May 89 21:38:19 GMT
References: <386@spec0.UUCP> <387@spec0.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <387@spec0.UUCP> blm@spec0.UUCP (Bharat Lal Madhyani) writes:
>char *bad_address = "Testing Initialization";
>char *path[]  = {
>		bad_address,           /* Here is illegal initialization */
>};

Yes, because such initializers have to be known at compiler/link time,
not run time, the initializers must be constant expresions, not
contents of storage locations.