Hmm.. Looks like a (mis)understanding problem.
The error means that you *can not* use non-constant expressions for
initializing the global data. Basically, you can not do this (except in case
you rewrite stdlib and make stderr, stdout etc. constants ;-). Period.
-- KD
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From: Satish Pagare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Monday, October 11, 1999 10:12 PM
Subject: [LI] Help compilation problem !!!
>Hi All,
> I have a strange problem while compiling the following code
>on RH6.0.
>-----begin code
>#include<stdio.h>
>FILE *fp = stderr;
>main()
>{
>}
>-----end code
>
>The above code gives compilation error :
>
>[kram@linux2idc net]$ cc a.c
>a.c:2: initializer element is not constant
>
>but if I change the code to ....
>
>---begin code
>#include<stdio.h>
>FILE *fp;
>main()
>{
> fp = stderr;
>}
>--- end code
>the compilation goes through !!!!
>Please help to remove the errors. Pls reply to this mail ASAP to
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