Hi. I have run into a little problem with a static initializer that seems to work just fine with VC++ but fails with gcc. % cat callback.c extern __declspec(dllimport) void ExtCallback(void); typedef void (callback) (void); typedef struct Scallback { callback*c1; } Scallback; static Scallback scall = {ExtCallback}; int main() { callback*sc = scall.c1; return (int) sc; } % gcc -c callback.c callback.c:10: initializer element is not constant callback.c:10: (near initialization for `scall.c1') When this same code it compiled with VC++ it waits until link time to figure out the function address. Why does this fail with gcc? P.S. Other folks have mentioned this python FAQ but it does not explain why gcc generates this error. http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html#3.24 thanks Mo DeJong Red Hat Inc -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/