Dumb-struct

[Guest]

Searched on "struct initialize" and didn't find much.

I tried to clean up a project (PCM 3.185 on a PIC16F877) that works fine. Wanted to put some of my constants in structures like:

struct axisconsts
{
float offset;
float sense;
} x_axis, y_axis;

x_axis.offset = 3.1459;
x_axis.sense = 2.71828;
.... and so forth.

The compiler complains that the line with x_axis.offset needs a "(". This is right out of the book, basically. What is wrong? Take out the struct initialization lines and it compiles fine.

Thanks.

[LloydSargent]

Hmm...

I tried it and it worked fine (not the answer you want to hear!).

Where do you have

x_axis.offset = 3.1459;
x_axis.sense = 2.71828;

In your code?

Cheers,

Lloyd

[SteveS]

You need to put the initializations inside a function or main.

-or initialize them like this (based on K&R)-

[LloydSargent]

Okay, before you get too confused, HERE are the only valid ways to initialize the struct.

1ST

[Guest]

OK folks -

Thanks very much and let me try some of these suggestions.

Michael