Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 11:31:59 +0000 From: Nicolas Souchu <Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C and static initialization with unions Message-ID: <19980806113159.49110@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr> In-Reply-To: <199808050149.SAA01073@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 06:49:27PM -0700 References: <199808050103.SAA27705@usr02.primenet.com> <199808050149.SAA01073@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 06:49:27PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
[...]
>> 4) It still breaks for:
>>
>> typedef enum { UT_INT, UT_CHAR, UT_PTR } ut_t;
>>
>> typedef struct {
>> ut_t u_type;
>> struct foo_t u; /* someone blew a typedef*/
>> } bob_t;
>>
>> bob_t bobs.p[] = {
>> { UT_PTR, &anyvar },
>> { UT_INT, 35 }, /* oops!*/
>> { UT_PTR, NULL }
>> };
>>
>
>The gcc info "extensions/named elements" section describes a useful
>extension that lets you cut through much of this crap.
>
It becomes a FreeBSD related question then... thanks mike ;)
Archie said:
>>>
One non-portable nicety of gcc is that you can do this:
union foo {
int iarg;
char carg;
};
static union foo x = { carg: 12 };
-Archie
___________________________________________________________________________
Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com
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Is it allowed in FreeBSD? Is all FreeBSD C source code portable?
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