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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: possible structure initialization bug
Message-ID: <507@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Aug-87 23:53:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.507
Posted: Sat Aug 15 23:53:07 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 20-Aug-87 06:29:01 EDT
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Summary: I seem to remember Ritchie's compiler did this...


int x[2][2] = { 1, 2, 3, 4 };

I believe Ritchie's compiler (and other old 'C' compilers) treated nested
parentheses in aggregate initialisations as informative only, to be used
when ambiguities were found or subelements weren't fully initialised.

For example:

int x[2][2] = { 1, 2 } == { {1, 2}, {0, 0} };

	1 2
	0 0

int x[2][2] = { {1}, {2} } == { {1, 0} {2, 0} };

	1 0
	2 0
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