-[ Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 01:26:03AM -0400, Ken Raeburn ]
> ("Is for some reason invalid" is not very descriptive; please include
> specific compiler messages.)
Sorry ; the specific error message was, you guesssed it right:
"initializer element is not constant".
> That syntax -- the parenthesi
On Sat 13 Aug 2011 07:26, Ken Raeburn writes:
> That syntax -- the parenthesized type followed by a list of initializers
> in braces -- is called a "compound literal" (technically not a cast
> expression) and was added in C99. The value of a compound literal is an
> anonymous object with a value
On Aug 13, 2011, at 08:23, Andy Wingo wrote:
> I only have a draft copy of C99, from 7 September 2007, but it does
> permit constant expressions to appear outside function bodies. How
> could that happen except for in initializers? I do see the language in
> the GCC docs though; it's confusing.
() Ian Hulin
() Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:50:23 +0100
Thanks for the info, it would be useful but we need to things at
run-time. We've got stuff in an initialization scheme script which is
called from the Lilypond code image and this historically has done the
(debug-enable 'debug) call.
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