c/8290: Initialization with compound literals during declaration fails with gcc 3.2

c/8290: Initialization with compound literals during declaration fails with gcc 3.2

[kipp]

>Number:         8290
>Category:       c
>Synopsis:       Initialization with compound literals during declaration fails with gcc 3.2
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          rejects-legal
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Oct 19 17:26:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Kipp Cannon
>Release:        gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)
>Organization:
>Environment:
Hybrid RedHat 7.2/8.0 system running on an Intel PII-400.
>Description:
When compiling the included file using -std=gnu89 and -std=gnu99, variable declarations succede/fail as follows

           | gnu89    gnu99
-----------+----------------
v          |  OK       OK
w          |  OK      FAILS
x          | FAILS    FAILS
y          |  OK       OK
z (memcpy) |  OK       OK

the error message is "array initialized from non-constant array expression".  The output of "gcc -v -std=gnu99 initializers.c" is

Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2/specs
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --host=i386-redhat-linux --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)
 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2/cpp0 -lang-c -v -D__GNUC__=3 -D__GNUC_MINOR__=2 -D__GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__=0 -D__GXX_ABI_VERSION=102 -D__ELF__ -Dunix -D__gnu_linux__ -Dlinux -D__ELF__ -D__unix__ -D__gnu_linux__ -D__linux__ -D__unix -D__linux -Asystem=posix -D__NO_INLINE__ -D__STDC_HOSTED__=1 -Acpu=i386 -Amachine=i386 -Di386 -D__i386 -D__i386__ -D__tune_i386__ initializers.c -std=gnu99 initializers.i
GNU CPP version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7) (cpplib) (i386 Linux/ELF)
ignoring nonexistent directory "/usr/i386-redhat-linux/include"
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
 /usr/local/include
 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2/include
 /usr/include
End of search list.
 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2/cc1 -fpreprocessed initializers.i -quiet -dumpbase initializers.c -std=gnu99 -version -o initializers.s
GNU CPP version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7) (cpplib) (i386 Linux/ELF)
GNU C version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7) (i386-redhat-linux)
        compiled by GNU C version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7).
initializers.c:8: array initialized from non-constant array expression
initializers.c: In function `main':
initializers.c:12: array initialized from non-constant array expression
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
None.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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