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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Union initialization
Message-ID: <9664@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 19 Feb 89 01:14:25 GMT
References: <816@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <816@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
>  Does 'ANSI' C allow for union initialization?  If not, why not?

Yes, it does.  The initializer is for the first member of the union.

Nobody suggested an acceptable way to specify initializing members
other than the first.  Please don't post your suggestion here, as
it's probably already been seen and rejected.