`initializer element is not constant' issue

Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
Wed Aug 22 00:33:00 GMT 2001


On Aug 21, 2001, Gigi Sullivan <sullivan@sikurezza.org> wrote:

>    Everything should be ok, but I get 

>    `initializer element is not constant' error from the compiler.

>    Is there a way to work around this, please? [1]

I'm afraid initializers of global variables cannot contain function
calls in C.

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