Thread: structure members outside main

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    structure members outside main

    ive been trying to solve this now for at least 2 hours.

    Code:
    struct sizes
    {
        int e_size;
    };
    
    struct sizes headersizes;
    
    headersizes.e_size = sizeof(struct ethhdr);
    
    ....
    int main...
    gcc tells me that there is a parse error before '.'
    in this line
    Code:
    headersizes.e_size = sizeof(struct ethhdr);
    why is this happening? cant i declare structure members as globals? or outside of a function?

    thanks

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    You can declare a structure-variable outside a function, but you can not initialise a structure-variable outside a function in this way. But you can initialise a structure-variable during declaring, the same way you would do with other type of variables.

    Code:
    // This would initialise the struct member e_size to 1
    struct sizes headersizes = {1};
    Last edited by Shiro; 03-09-2003 at 07:29 AM.

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    in what way can i initialise it?
    or isnt it possible?

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    I edited my post above just before your second post.

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    thanks

    i appreciate your help very much! little help for big project

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    struct sizes
    {
    int e_size;
    };

    struct sizes headersizes = {(int)sizeof(struct ethhdr)};

    ...
    int main...


    ****Edit****
    Looks like you sorted it out while I was posting.
    Last edited by Heraclitus; 03-09-2003 at 07:36 AM.

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