#: 11456 S3/Languages
    23-Jul-91  07:38:38
Sb: #11444-#C Compiler Problem
Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
To: Jay Truesdale 72176,3565 (X)

Hi Jay - the C book I have says that you can't do that kind of initialization.
What you have to do instead is this (and don't leave out the {}'s !!)...

 struct _mtable {
    char _mnen[8];
    int _mvi;
    char _mvc; };

 struct _mtable mtable[3] = {
   { {'!','d','u','m','m','y','\0'},   0, 1},
   { {'a','b','c','d','\0'},           2, 3},
   { {'a','d','d','\0'},            1000, 4}   };

But since that's a terrific pain, I finally recalled that we discussed this
back in Jan 1990 (when I first was looking at C and began to take notes :-).
One way to "get around" it is to do the init yourself:

 struct _mtable mtable[3] = {
   { {},0,1 },
   { {},2,3 },
   { {},4,5 }};
 char *istring[] = {"!dummy","abcd","add"};

 main()
 {
   int n;
   for (n=0;n<3;n++)
     strcopy(mtable[n]._mnen,istring[n]);
 }

Hope this helps. best - kevin

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