Re: lily/freetype-error.cc: const struct #include ;

[Carl Sorensen]

On 9/6/10 11:44 AM, "Graham Percival" <address@hidden> wrote:

> I see a really weird C++ construct in this (short) file:
> lily/freetype-error.cc
> 
> --------
> const struct Freetype_error_message
> {
>   FT_Error     err_code;
>   const char*  err_msg;
> } ft_errors[] =
> 
> #include <freetype/fterrors.h>
> 
>   ;
> --------
> 
> The #include and the ; appear to be part of the const struct -- moving
> the #include further up in the file produces a compile error.
> 
> Does anybody know what this is doing, and more importantly, how it
> could be written in more standard/typical C++ ?

This is copied virtually verbatim from the suggested usage in the freetype.h
file, so I guess it's the recommended practice for use with freetype.

HTH,

Carl