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From: drh@notecnirp.Princeton.EDU (Dave Hanson)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.bug
Subject: initializer bug
Message-ID: <12476@princeton.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 8 Oct 88 13:26:43 GMT
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Reply-To: drh@princeton.Princeton.EDU (Dave Hanson)
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Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Princeton University
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my reading of the 5/88 standard and K&R2 says
that the following initializations are legal
(ie, the {} are optional) but gcc complains.

[703] cat bug4.c
union { int x; char *y; } a = 5;
struct { int x; char *y; } b = 6;

[704] gcc -S -v bug4.c
gcc version 1.28
 /usr/local/lib/gcc-cpp -v -undef -D__GNU__ -D__GNUC__ -Dvax -Dunix bug4.c /tmp/cc028798.cpp
GNU CPP version 1.28
 /usr/local/lib/gcc-cc1 /tmp/cc028798.cpp -quiet -dumpbase bug4.c -version -o bug4.s
GNU C version 1.28 (vax) compiled by GNU C version 1.28.
bug4.c:1: type mismatch in initialization
bug4.c:2: invalid initializer
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