Erroneous diagnostic from VOS 'C' compiler?

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From: John Winters
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 20:26

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The VOS (Stratus) 'C' compiler generates an error on encountering
the following code and refuses to compile it, complaining that the
curly brackets are superfluous.  Is it broken?

int an_array [1] = {1} ;

John
P.S.  It is perfectly happy with :

int another_array [2] = {1, 2} ;

-- 
John Winters.  Wallingford, Oxon, England.

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