On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 03:15:09AM +1000, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am seeking to do the following:
>
> struct something {
>
> char *n1;
> char *n2;
> char *list[];
> };
>
> struct something st[] = {
> { "a1", "a2", {"a3", "a4", "a5", NULL}};
>
> with lots of initializers like the above, where the list element can have
> any number of things in it.
>
> However, gcc won't let me do it. Since I want to initialize lots of
> structure like that, is there any way I can do it?
I never found a way. In packet-ncp.c, I'm doing the table-driven
thing as well, with "contained" variable-sized lists of structs,
like your "contained" variable-sized list of char*'s.
I broke apart the variable-sized stuff out, and gave it its
own symbol:
/* Service Queue Job REQUEST */
static svc_record ncp_17_7C_C[] = {
{ nbelong, 4, "The queue the job resides in" },
{ nbeshort, 2, "Job Type" },
{ nend, 0, NULL }
};
/* Service Queue Job REPLY */
static svc_record ncp_17_7C_R[] = {
{ nbelong, 4, "Client station number: %d" },
{ nbelong, 4, "Task Number: %d" },
{ nbelong, 4, "User: %d" },
{ nbelong, 4, "Server specifed to service queue entry: %08X" },
{ ndatetime, 6, "Earliest time to execute" },
{ ndatetime, 6, "When job entered queue" },
{ nbelong, 4, "Job Number" },
{ nbeshort, 2, "Job Type" },
{ nbeshort, 2, "Job Position" },
{ nbeshort, 2, "Current status of job: 0x%02x" },
{ nasciiz, 14, "Name of file" },
{ nbelong, 4, "File handle" },
{ nbelong, 4, "Client station number" },
{ nbelong, 4, "Task number" },
{ nbelong, 4, "Job server" },
{ nend, 0, NULL }
};
Then I use the symbols in my struct initializer:
{ 0x17, 0x7C, SUBFUNC, "Service Queue Job",
ncp_17_7C_C, ncp_17_7C_R, NCP_QUEUE_SERVICES
},
If there is a way to get an ANSI C compiler to initialize variable-sized
lists of things inside a struct, I'd love to hear about it.
--gilbert
