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minus-squareObin@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up19·edit-24 days agoYou mean ‘unnamed’ is what’s confusing you? Normally you can do anonymous struct/union members or struct struct/union members that are tagged structs but not anonymous. I.e. in standard C you’d have to do either: struct foo { int baz; }; struct bar { struct foo foo; }; ... struct bar data; data.foo.baz = 0; or: struct bar { struct { int baz; } foo; }; ... struct bar data; data.baz = 0; but to do the following, you’d need the extension: struct foo { int baz; }; struct bar { struct foo; }; ... struct bar data; data.baz = 0;
minus-squaremina86@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-23 days agoMinor correction: Unnamed structs and unions (so your second example) are not part of C. They are GNU extensions.
minus-squareObin@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-24 days agoUnless I’m misunderstanding something, I’m pretty sure they’ve been standardized in C11. Also mentioned here.
You mean ‘unnamed’ is what’s confusing you?
Normally you can do anonymous struct/union members or struct struct/union members that are tagged structs but not anonymous.
I.e. in standard C you’d have to do either:
struct foo { int baz; }; struct bar { struct foo foo; }; ... struct bar data; data.foo.baz = 0;or:
struct bar { struct { int baz; } foo; }; ... struct bar data; data.baz = 0;but to do the following, you’d need the extension:
struct foo { int baz; }; struct bar { struct foo; }; ... struct bar data; data.baz = 0;Minor correction: Unnamed structs and unions (so your second example) are not part of C. They are GNU extensions.Unless I’m misunderstanding something, I’m pretty sure they’ve been standardized in C11. Also mentioned here.
You appear to be correct.