From: sopchak@aoainc.com (Jim Sopchak)
Subject: Re: BUG: stdin not a constant
4 Dec 1997 21:07:50 -0800
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To: Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com, petdr@students.cs.mu.oz.au

Petdr,

Having dealt with the same problem in a port before, I've found the best
way to do it (IMHO), is to quickly identify all such globals (static or
otherwise) from the compiler/linker errors and initialize them first
thing in main() before any use.  Think of it as being the same
responsibility you have when initializing member variables in a
constructor.


#include <stdio.h>

static FILE *out = (FILE *)NULL ;

void my_out_func(char *szMsg)
{
	fprintf(out, "%s", szMsg);
}

void main(void)
{
	out = stdout ;
	fprintf(out, "hello world\n");
	my_out_func("...so cold 'n cruel.\n") ;
}

Bon apetite,

Jim
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