The C11 standard is clear here on syntax for a static initializer.
Read section 6.7.9, constraint 4:
All the expressions in an initializer for an object that
has static or thread storage duration shall be constant
expressions or string literals.
It's syntax, not initialization.
And that makes sense. However the memory is initialized before runtime could be via memcpy() it could be loaded as part of the executable and then mapped dynamically at runtime. That's what 5.1.2 is saying.
What 6.7.9 constraint 4 is saying, is that static variables can only be constant expressions.
Read section 6.7.9, constraint 4:
It's syntax, not initialization.And that makes sense. However the memory is initialized before runtime could be via memcpy() it could be loaded as part of the executable and then mapped dynamically at runtime. That's what 5.1.2 is saying.
What 6.7.9 constraint 4 is saying, is that static variables can only be constant expressions.