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From: hokey@plus5.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: union initialization
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Date: Thu, 23-Apr-87 13:43:48 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 23 13:43:48 1987
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There is no current way to perform compile-time initailization of unions.

If the braindead compile-time first-member initialization rule in the proposed
C standard gets accepted, you will have a way to perform compile-time
initialization of unions which only need to be initialized to the type of
their initial members.  In my opinion, this mechanism is *worse* than not
having *any* way to perform compile-time initialization of unions.
-- 
Hokey