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From: Peter Berdeklis <peter AT atmosp DOT physics DOT utoronto DOT ca>
Subject: Re: Labelled array display element funny 
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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 21:01:43 GMT
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On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Chris Waters wrote:

> In article <53gjj8$5l7 AT mark DOT ucdavis DOT edu>,
> Jeffrey Taylor <elric AT wheel DOT dcn DOT davis DOT ca DOT us> wrote:
> >A.Appleyard (A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk) wrote:
> >:   What have I done wrong here? Or can't I use array element labels when the
> >: elements are subarray displays?
> >
> >Correct.  You cannot use array labels in C initializers.
> 
> Unless you're using gcc.  And gee, guess what?  :)
> 
> The correct answer is that if you have an array of structures, you must
> name the structure fields in your initializers:
> 
>     craft dsub[128]={
>          [1] {codeno: "CH79", name: "Aphanistor"},
>         [55] {codeno: "DS1 ", name: "Quackers"},
>         [56] {codeno: "DS2 ", name: "Donald"},
>         [23] {codeno: "BA32", name: "Big Jim"},
>         [35] {codeno: "FA65", name: "Trelawney"}};

Note that this is not available in gnu C++ (according to the info files 
:), so if you've tried compiling this with gxx it still will not work.

Pete

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Peter Berdeklis
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto