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From: Mihnea Balta <dark_lkml@mymail.ro>
To: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
Subject: Re: anonymous structs in unions
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 07:57:00 -0000
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Hmm, I tried with 2.95.3 and it complained. I take it gcc 3.2 understands t=
his=20
kind of constructs, I might consider switching to it (and recompiling tons =
of=20
software that uses the old ABI, but that's it, it had to happen someday :) )

Thank you for clearing this up for me.

On Thursday 27 February 2003 19:15, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Mihnea Balta wrote:
> > I've found out quite a while ago that gcc and g++ don't like constructs
> > like:
> >
> > union something{
> >    struct{
> >      int a, int b;
> >    };
> >    struct{
> >      float c, d;
> >    };
> > } a;
> >
> > a.c =3D 12.f;
>
> If you fix the typos (, -> ;), that compiles nicely with gcc3.2.
> - Dan