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From: herbison@ultra.DEC (B.J.)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: initializing unions
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Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 12:47:44 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  9 12:47:44 1984
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> What is wrong with
> 
> 	union foo thing.member = {...};
> 
> ?  It is clear and unambiguous.

This works fine if the union is the top level.  It falls apart
if there is a union inside a struct or a union or if there are
several unions in the object.

There may be a way to get around this problem, but I can not think
of any clean way.

						B.J.
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