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From: vasta@apollo.HP.COM (John Vasta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: trouble with cc
Message-ID: <47dac4f7.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Jan 90 15:20:00 GMT
References: <1047@tuvie>
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Apollo Division; Chelmsford, MA
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In article <1047@tuvie> inst182@tuvie (Inst.f.Techn.Informatik) writes:
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>
>Th Apollo C Compiler seems to have problems when initializing typedef'd 
>structures. This is especialliy disturbing when compiling X-programs, 
>since initializing structures becomes virtually impossible.    
>
>Has anybody had a similar problem and found a solution ?
>
>  Michael K. Gschwind           ...!uunet!mcsun!tuvie!vlsivie!gschwind

The code contains an incorrectly structured initialization list. The
aggregate being initialized has four levels of structure, but the
initialization list contains only three. C allows you to elide braces
for the innermost level of an aggregate, but it appears that the author
had elided them for the next-innermost level. The initializer list
should look like this:

    NumberSegmentRec num_segments[12] = {
    	{
            { /* this was added by me */
    		{0, 0, 0, 2},	/* 1 */
    		{0, 0, 0, 0},
    		{0, 0, 0, 0},
    		{0, 0, 0, 0},
    		{0, 0, 0, 0}
            } /* so was this */
    	},
        ...

By the way, the AT&T 2.0 C++ translator and the GNU C compiler also
complain about this code, so the Apollo C compiler is not the only
one which diagnoses this error.

John Vasta                Apollo Computer (division of Hewlett-Packard)
vasta@apollo.hp.com       M.S. CHA-01-LT
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