Jan Kok wrote:
> a) who says member names can begin with "."? I don't see it in The C
> Programming Language, 2nd Ed. by K&R, and I don't see it in the
> extensions listed in the gcc documentation (although it mentions that
> "$" is allowed as an extension).
>
RMS says. It actually means the member name without the ".". This is a
GNU CC extension. This kind of syntax is used in Linux kernel source
code a lot. It is much easier to init some specific field of a
structure in this way.
P.S. IIRC, C9X or C2k does support this syntax.
Ollie
> b) I also don't see where <member>=<value> is allowed for
> initialization. The standard way is { <value>, <value>...}
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> static struct stream rom_stream __stream = {
> .init = init_bytes,
> .read = read_bytes,
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> Thanks,
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> - Jan
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