From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 4 19:36:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA19039 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 19:36:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net ([209.118.174.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA19034 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 19:36:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA02346; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 21:34:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 21:34:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@picnic.mat.net To: Charles Youse cc: Nicolas Souchu , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: C and static initialization with unions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Charles Youse wrote: > > > On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > No, you forgot to mention which union memeber to use. Your foo_t.p > > would do nicely. > > That's not ANSI standard C. If GCC supports it, then fine but it won't be > portable. Read my original post, where I said that it wasn't portable, but it's _not_ forbidden! There's a difference, guys! > > Chuck > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message