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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Array intialization
Message-ID: <10359@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 5 Jun 89 11:28:13 GMT
References: <3420@ihuxv.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3420@ihuxv.ATT.COM> bareta@ihuxv.ATT.COM (Benyukhis) writes:
>The following declaration is illegal.  Why??????
>char *a = "string1";
>char *b = "string2";
>char *c = "string3";
>char *g[] = { a, b, c };

If the declaration has file scope, so that the variable `g' has static
storage duration, then the problem is that initializers must be constants,
not contents of variables.  If the declaration has block scope, then the
problem is that run-time initialization of auto aggregates isn't supported
by your compiler.