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From: john@viper.UUCP (John Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: union initialization
Message-ID: <938@viper.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-May-87 17:29:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: viper.938
Posted: Wed May  6 17:29:32 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 9-May-87 01:33:48 EDT
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Reply-To: john@viper.UUCP (John Stanley)
Organization: DynaSoft Systems
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In article <7023@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
 >
 >My relatively worthless 2c:
 >
 >union foo {
 >	int a;
 >	char *p;
 >	double foo;
 >} u[] = {
 >	{0,,},		/* init the int */
 >	{,NULL,},	/* init the char *
 >	{,,0}		/* init the double */
 >};
 >

  How about the following? (after I change 2nd foo to baz to avoid confusion):

  union foo
	{
	int a;
	char *p;
	double baz;
	}
     fu[4] =
	{
	 {        0},	/* Defaults to init the 1st element (int) ((ANSI)) */
	 {a:      0},	/* init the int */
	 {p:   NULL},	/* init the char pointer */
	 {baz:  0.0}	/* init the double */
	};

I don't know about you, but this looks very readable to me....

	
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John Stanley (john@viper.UUCP)
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