Re: [MiNT] gcc

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>]

Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr> writes:

> Le 02/02/2010 22:53, Helmut Karlowski a écrit :
>> That's nice. I compiled the current kernel with gcc 2.95 and got
>> compiler-errors on some statements that where new to me.
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> {
>> union{ char *s, long l] u; u.s = x;
>> long z;
>>
>> ...
>> }
>>
>> That's not C as I know it. I thought gcc 2.95 is C99.
>
> There are 2 typos in your quote.
>
> This is an unnamed union, it is a Microsoft extension supported by GCC.

Barring typos this is a perfectly standard declaration of a variable
with union type.  The extension you are thinking of has nothing to do
with this.

Andreas.

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