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From: rgr@m10ux.UUCP (Duke Robillard)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Structure initiallization problem
Message-ID: <892@m10ux.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 89 19:55:35 GMT
References: <8902081425.AA06738@black-ice.tis.llnl.gov> <8903191754.AA12616@tub.UUCP>
Reply-To: rgr@m10ux.UUCP (Duke Robillard)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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From time to time, when building X stuff on my Sun 3/50, SunOS 4.0 (but
it also happened on SunOS 3.5) I get a syntax error message from the
compiler in a structure initialization.  As an example, I just got
it in the HP widget set stuff: 

"Manager.c", line 166: } expected

It seems to be related to a trailing comma in the initialization stuff.
For example:

struct-typdefed-name variable-name =
{
       {
         ....
            NULL,
            NULL,<--this one, here, I think
       },{
            0,
            NULL,
         ...
};

It doesn't help to take the comma out, though.

I've seen this in a number of pieces of X code, both from the release 
and from the net.  Does anyone know anything about it?

thanks in advance.



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|  Duke Robillard                                                            |
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