Re: Strange variable declarations in Kernel

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 10:33:27PM +0530, Manu Anand wrote:

> Hi Paul:
> 
> This is a GCC extension. For example 
> 
> struct file_operations fops = {
> read: device_read,
> write: device_write,
> open: device_open,
> release: device_release
> };
> 
> The ANSI way of doing the same is 
> struct file_operations fops = {
> .read = device_read,
> .write = device_write,
> .open = device_open,
> .release = device_release
> };

Pauls question is about bitfields (that are part of C89).

Your example is about structure initialization that is something 
completely different.

> HTH
> Manu
>...

cu
Adrian

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