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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Union initialization
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Date: 18 Feb 89 18:46:19 GMT
References: <816@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Reply-To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells)
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In article <816@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
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:   Does 'ANSI' C allow for union initialization?

Yes, two ways:

1) Initializing via the first member:

union FOO {
	int     bar;
	char    *gak;
} Bletch = { 42 };

2) Initializing from a union of compatible type:

func()
{
	union FOO frab = Bletch;

Note the brace use: braces are required for the first way and
forbidden for the second.

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Bill
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