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Re: error: initializer element is not constant|

From Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: error: initializer element is not constant|
Date 2017-05-08 09:00 -0700
Organization None to speak of
Message-ID <lny3u7baod.fsf@kst-u.example.com> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <oepakk$jif$1@dont-email.me> <oepfak$1t91$1@gioia.aioe.org> <gmXPA.1653357$Pm3.1121619@fx42.am4> <oepglk$1vlt$1@gioia.aioe.org> <ufYPA.134876$QR.27637@fx34.am4>

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bartc <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
[...]
> Those types would look like this without typedefs:
>
> char *  str;
> char *  array_of_str[];
> char ** ptr_to_str;
> char ** array_of_ptr_to_str[];
>
> (The arrays will need a dimension, or need to be initialised.)
>
> But arrays of pointers to strings would be unusual, and be harder to 
> initialise as you can't just have "ABC", but need to set up a named 
> string: char* abc="ABC", then use &abc.

I think you meant that arrays of pointers to arrays would be unusual.

A "pointer to a string" is by definition a pointer to the initial
character of a string.  Arrays of pointers to strings are quite common;
for example, argv points to the initial element of such an array.

[...]

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
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error: initializer element is not constant| jak <please@nospam.tnx> - 2017-05-08 09:55 +0200
  Re: error: initializer element is not constant| jak <please@nospam.tnx> - 2017-05-08 10:05 +0200
  Re: error: initializer element is not constant| Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2017-05-08 10:38 +0200
    Re: error: initializer element is not constant| jak <please@nospam.tnx> - 2017-05-08 11:55 +0200
      Re: error: initializer element is not constant| bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-05-08 11:01 +0100
        Re: error: initializer element is not constant| jak <please@nospam.tnx> - 2017-05-08 12:18 +0200
          Re: error: initializer element is not constant| bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-05-08 12:02 +0100
            Re: error: initializer element is not constant| Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-08 09:00 -0700
              Re: error: initializer element is not constant| bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-05-08 17:50 +0100
                Re: error: initializer element is not constant| Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-08 11:37 -0700
                Re: error: initializer element is not constant| bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-05-08 19:49 +0100
                Re: error: initializer element is not constant| Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-08 20:13 +0100
                Re: error: initializer element is not constant| Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-08 12:44 -0700
                Re: error: initializer element is not constant| scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-05-08 20:24 +0000
            Re: error: initializer element is not constant| jak <please@nospam.tnx> - 2017-05-09 09:54 +0200
              Re: error: initializer element is not constant| jak <please@nospam.tnx> - 2017-05-09 10:15 +0200
              Re: error: initializer element is not constant| GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-05-09 12:12 +0200
              Re: error: initializer element is not constant| bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-05-09 11:47 +0100
                Re: error: initializer element is not constant| jak <please@nospam.tnx> - 2017-05-09 19:06 +0200
                Re: error: initializer element is not constant| scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-05-09 17:10 +0000
                Re: error: initializer element is not constant| jak <please@nospam.tnx> - 2017-05-09 19:20 +0200
                Re: error: initializer element is not constant| Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2017-05-09 10:35 -0700
                Re: error: initializer element is not constant| jak <please@nospam.tnx> - 2017-05-09 20:04 +0200
                Re: error: initializer element is not constant| Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-09 11:57 -0700
                Re: error: initializer element is not constant| supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-05-09 12:50 -0700
                Re: error: initializer element is not constant| Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-09 12:54 -0700
                Re: error: initializer element is not constant| bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-05-09 20:15 +0100
                Re: error: initializer element is not constant| "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-05-09 14:13 -0400
                Re: error: initializer element is not constant| Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-09 11:41 -0700
              Re: error: initializer element is not constant| Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-09 12:16 +0100
              Re: error: initializer element is not constant| Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-09 08:11 -0700
          Re: error: initializer element is not constant| Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-08 12:12 +0100
            Re: error: initializer element is not constant| bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-05-08 13:45 +0100
              Re: error: initializer element is not constant| Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-08 09:04 -0700
              Re: error: initializer element is not constant| Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-08 19:53 +0100
                Re: error: initializer element is not constant| bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-05-08 20:44 +0100
                Re: error: initializer element is not constant| Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2017-05-09 09:27 +0200
              Re: error: initializer element is not constant| Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-05-09 07:10 -0700
            Re: error: initializer element is not constant| Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-08 09:30 -0700
  Re: error: initializer element is not constant| John Bode <jfbode1029@gmail.com> - 2017-05-08 08:05 -0700

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