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From: chip@killer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: initialization of unions
Message-ID: <1936@killer.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 18:15:23 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 28 18:15:23 1987
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Reply-To: chip@killer.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal)
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In article <4237@ccv.bbn.COM> kgregory@ccy.bbn.com (Keith D Gregory) writes:
> ...unions are initialized
> as if you were initializing their first element...

I've never understood why this is the case.  Is there some reason I'm
overlooking why the compiler couldn't let you cast it to one of the
following elements?

-- 
Chip Rosenthal, Dallas Semiconductor, (214) 450-0400
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