Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Is this legal ANSI?
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.161639.19725@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Jan14.225620.9974@demott.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 1991 16:16:39 GMT

In article <1991Jan14.225620.9974@demott.com> kdq@demott.com (Kevin D. Quitt) writes:
>    Microsoft C 6.0 accepts:
>struct	master_log_entry
>   {
>    struct  log_entry	le;
>    union
>       {
>        struct	gas_log_entry       gle;
>		...
>       };
>   };
>
>	mle.gle.<reference to inside of gas_log_entry struct>
>	...
>
>    without a complaint.  Am I just lucky?

Yes.  Nameless members are illegal in ANSI C (except for the special case
of nameless bitfields).  Some compilers support this as an extension.
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