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From: dick@tjalk.UUCP (Dick Grune)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Standard for union initialization?
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Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 05:14:05 EST
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I saw a suggestion in net.lang.c a few months ago that I found very sensible,
readable and hygienic:

	union	{
		int i;
		float x;
		char *str;
	} ixstr = { , 3.14, };

if you want it to start off as a float, etc.

Note that:
1. it is (almost) isomorphous to a struct initialization,
2. it also works nicely for arrays of unions.

					Dick Grune
					Vrije Universiteit
					de Boelelaan 1081
					1081 HV  Amsterdam
					the Netherlands

... and my name isn't Richard.