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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Array intialization
Message-ID: <10376@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 7 Jun 89 21:41:25 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
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In article <7330014@hpcllca.HP.COM> curtw@hpcllca.HP.COM (Curt Wohlgemuth) writes:
>It matters not whether the declaration for 'g' is inside a block or not.

I think you're right; somehow I missed that.
When auto aggregate initialization was added by the pANS,
aggregate initializers were required to be constant expressions.