"Not the best place for it" is the understatement of the year.
It's totally idiotic.
*NO*.
Dammit, we don't put static initializers in header files. We don't
duplicate the data in every single thing that includes a header file. If
you want to duplicate the data, you export it as a real data structure,
and you *still* put the data structure in a .c file.
WHAT CLEANUP? The thing is the anti-thesis of a "cleanup". There is no
excuse for putting a large array in a header file and including it
millions of times. Or even just twice. The point of a header file is to
*declare* things, not to have big data structures in.
Linus
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