Eric Blake <[email protected]> writes:
> Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes:
>> -mbstate_t _gl_mbsrtowcs_state = 0;
>> +mbstate_t _gl_mbsrtowcs_state = { 0, };
>
> Is this correct for all platforms? If I read Posix correctly, mbstate_t can
> be
> a numeric type rather than a struct.
The initializer for an object scalar type may optionally be
enclosed in braces. From C99 6.7.8 "Initialization", paragraph
11:
The initializer for a scalar shall be a single
expression, optionally enclosed in braces.
C89 had similar text.
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