initializing static mutually referencing structures

[Larry Jones]

In article <1287 at granjon.UUCP>, jhpb at granjon.UUCP (Joseph H. Buehler) writes:
> I have some structures that refer to each other, that I want to be
> static.  The compiler doesn't like the following because it doesn't know
> what y is when it's initializing x:
> 
> 	static struct xtag x = {&y};
> 	static struct ytag y = {&x};
> 
> Does ANSI C have any way to do this?

	static struct ytag y;		/* tentative definition */
	static struct xtag x = {&y};
	static struct ytag y = {&x};	/* actual definition */

> For now, I had to drop the static and put an extern at the top of the file

Which is what you'll have to do for most non-ANSI compilers.
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