From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 4 20:31:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA27404 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 20:31:41 -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 UAA27399 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 20:31:37 -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 WAA02452; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 22:29:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 22:29:53 -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: > > > Read my original post, where I said that it wasn't portable, but it's > > _not_ forbidden! There's a difference, guys! > > Oh yeah?!? Oh yeah?!? Well... urm.. uh... pull my finger! }:> > > I missed that part of your post. My apologies . . . I think I'm unclear here. I said it was non-portable, I didn't say it was forbidden (Thomas added that, which I disputed). I _think_ the standard says it's not defined, but all I have to go on here is H&S, which I like a lot better than K&R. >From Thomas' viewpoint, where he's writing software destined for multiple platforms, it's very easy to see his point of view, which I think is non-portable == forbidden. My point of view was writing one-off custom controllers, where anything that works and is debuggable is just fine. > > Chuck > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- 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