Q41579: C2073 When Porting Code from QuickC 2.00 to C 5.10

Article: Q41579
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 2.00
Operating System(s): MS-DOS
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | s_c | mspl13_c
Last Modified: 28-FEB-1989

QuickC Version 2.00 allows arrays to be initialized within functions.
This procedure is not supported in C Version 5.10. Therefore, code
that utilizes this added facility of QuickC Version 2.00 will not port
directly to C Version 5.10.

An attempt to compile the code that initializes arrays declared within
functions under Version 5.10 of the C optimizing compiler will result
in the following error message, even though the code compiles with no
errors and no warnings under Version 2.00 of QuickC:

   C2073: "Cannot Initialize Array In Function"

The following code will compile without error and execute as expected
when compiled under QuickC Version 2.00, but will fail with the
compile time error C2073 when compiled under C Version 5.10:

#include <stdio.h>
void main(void)
 {
   char s[10] = "Hello";
 }

To work around this problem, initialize the array outside of any
function, as in the following modification of the above example:

#include <stdio.h>
char s[10] = "Hello";

void main (void)
   {
   {

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