Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions

From	nobody@example.org (Scott)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions
Date	2019-04-29 01:17 +0000
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On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 11:29:14 -0700, Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
wrote:

>nobody@example.org (Scott) writes:
>> On 27 Apr 2019 17:52:24 GMT, "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> wrote:
>>>Will the array be initialized during compile time so that the
>>>function code contains the values?
>>
>> Not to belabor the obvious related issue, but if you have *any*
>> initialized variable, where would you expect those initializing values
>> to be stored if not in the object code?
>
>    {
>        int r = rand();
>        time_t now = time(NULL);
>    }
>
>The initial values of r and now are not stored in the object code.
>They're computed at run time.

A fair point, but those aren't initializing *values*, are they? And
that's not quite what I was getting at in any case.

Most programmers would quickly intuit that object code must
necessarily contain all the information it needs for all of its
initializations. I was curious about the thinking behind the question
of whether the "code contains the values", wondering where that line
of thinking might lead.

You'll have to forgive me though. I've had a lot of IRL contact with
beginner programmers lately, and some of them have some truly baffling
notions.

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Static Arrays Inside Functions "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2019-04-27 17:52 +0000
  Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-04-27 19:03 +0100
    Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-04-27 13:14 -0700
      Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-04-28 00:10 +0200
  Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2019-04-27 13:40 -0700
  Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions nobody@example.org (Scott) - 2019-04-28 17:26 +0000
    Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-04-28 11:29 -0700
      Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions nobody@example.org (Scott) - 2019-04-29 01:17 +0000
        Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-04-28 20:09 -0700
        Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2019-04-29 10:33 +0000
          Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-04-29 11:49 +0100
          Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2019-04-29 04:50 -0700
          Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-04-29 17:36 +0100
          Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-04-29 15:24 -0700
      Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2019-04-29 05:50 +0000
        Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2019-04-29 05:51 +0000
        Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-04-29 00:04 -0700
          Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2019-04-29 15:06 +0000
    Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Mateusz Viste <mateusz@wont.tell> - 2019-04-28 19:20 +0000
      Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-04-28 13:50 -0700
  Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-04-29 00:44 -0400

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