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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: How to initialize unions
Message-ID: <3742@phri.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 89 21:03:51 GMT
Organization: Public Health Research Institute, NYC, NY
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I've got a structure which looks like:

	struct ident {
	        char *name;
	        int type;
	        union {
	                double f;
	                int i;
	        } value;
	};

and I want to initialize the name, type, and value.i elements of an array
of them them at compile time.  Trying the obvious:

struct ident idlist[] = {
	{"foo", KEYWORD, KW_FOO},
	{"bar", KEYWORD, KW_BAR},
	{"baz", KEYWORD, KW_BAZ}
};

draws an error from the compiler, "operands of = have incompatible types"
for each of the 3 lines.  Is there any way to do what I want to do?
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