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C90 vs C99

Posted Nov 14, 2006 20:52 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: C90 vs C99 by xoddam
Parent article: Buried in warnings

In C90 the initializations must be literals: you can't put an arbitrary
function call in there and expect it to work. (That's a GNU C extension,
copied from C++ and also found in C99: look up `Non-Constant Initializers'
in the manual.)

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