[Freeciv-Dev] Re: newbie C question

["Per I. Mathisen" <Per.Inge.Mathisen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Raimar Falke wrote:
>        [#10] If an object that has automatic  storage  duration  is
>        not  initialized explicitly, its value is indeterminate.  If
>        an  object  that  has  static  storage   duration   is   not
>        initialized explicitly, then:
>
>           - if it has pointer type, it is  initialized  to  a  null
>             pointer;

So,
   b = &improvement_types[i];
   b->terr_gate = fc_realloc((count + 1) * sizeof(b->terr_gate[0]));

will work, since
   struct impr_type improvement_types[B_LAST];

is a global and b->terr_gate is initialized to NULL? That will solve most
of the reloading problems in server/ruleset.c

But only until we drop the assumption that the number of buildings is
constant and we malloc() improvements_types too...

Yours,
Per

"What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally
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