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In article <DFBq4o.FED@polo.demon.co.uk> john@polo.demon.co.uk writes:

>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} ;
>

Yes, it's broken.  As I read the standard, it is an error if it 
_were not_ brace enclosed.  The semantics of 6.5.7 say:

# Otherwise, the initialiser for an object that has aggregate type 
# shall be a brace-enclosed list of initialisers...

Looking at the 'otherwise' cases, I can't see anything which allows 

  int an_array [1] = 1 ;

So your compiler seems not only to be rejecting something which is 
valid, it is _requiring_ something which is invalid!

(I am pretty sure I am correct in saying that _any_ initialiser can 
be brace-enclosed, even for scalars and strings. i.e. 

int x = {1};
char *cp={"hello"};

I can't think of an exception off-hand.

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