Re: structure initialization

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

Jerry wrote:
> 
> A kind of lame offtopic question :)
> What reason in 2.6 to do structure init in this way:
>  struct a = {
>   .name = value
> ...
> 
> instead of 2.4-like:
>  struct a = {
>   name: value
> ...
> 
> Is this a bad form to use ".name" in 2.4 or "name:" in 2.6?

name: is the obsolete GNU gcc extension, .name = is C99. The C99 style
is strongly preferred now.


Thiemo