On 10/23/06, Stefan Tibus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Searching for anonymous unions/structs on the net leads me to the impression that this is a C++ism which has been introduced to the GNU C compiler. Looking at the Sun Studio 11 documentation there is nothing "anonymous" at all in the C User's Guide. Only the C++ User's Guide mentions a switch to enable some language extensions, including anonymous structs (which seem to be disallowed in standard C++).
This may be true, but I suspect the reason that JG used these can be found at: http://cm.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/comp.html (section "Extensions"). If I remember correctly, JG mentioned on irc sometime that he'd like to use Plan9's C extensions...
...which leads me to the question: Is it good to make use of this? Wouldn't it be better to replace it with either type-casts or named unions/structs? (which are allowed for sure)
Since that would increase portability, that would definitally be better yes. Greets, Sander.
