> In C (and other languages) arrays can be initialised using a
> list of numbers:
>
> int a_1[10] = { 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3};
I agree with your statement that there is a problem with the above but
can not offer a solution to the problem you have stated. However, most
people sidestep the issue by not over specifying -- which is what is
being done here: there is a conflict between specifying the length of
the array and providing an initializer. Excluding the "lazy" case of
initializing the first few of a larger array, most people would specify
either the size and not initialize of the initializer and not the size
-- the compiler does not use the size after allocating the storage. So:
int a_1[] = { 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 } ;
or
int *const a_1 = { 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 } ;
are the most likely occurrences of this sort of initialization. The
size is then determined at compile time using the classic idiom:
const int size = sizeof(a_1) / sizeof(int) ;
Russel.
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