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From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
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Subject: Re: union initialization, another brick in the wall
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Date: Thu, 8-Nov-84 14:45:16 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  8 14:45:16 1984
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In the interests of pluralism, here is another idea concerning union
initialization.  Allow assignment expressions at the external level.  The
RHS would have to be a compile-time constant, and the LHS an already
declared lvalue.  Thus, you would have:

union {
	float x;
	int y;
} foo;

foo.x = 3;

Just a thought....
-- 
Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center
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