initialization of automatic structures/unions

[Chris Torek]

In article <13599 at life.ai.mit.edu> filisa at albert.ai.mit.edu
(Filisa Vistima) writes:
>Can someone give me a good reason why initializing automatic
>structures/unions is illegal? (says my compiler)

It is illegal because your compiler is (choose one):

  (a) broken;
  (b) not ANSI C conformant.

X3.159-1989 allows initialization of automatic (`local') structure and
union variables, with the same syntax and semantics as for static
variables (with the obvious change that the values do not persist).
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