[BRLTTY] readable struct initialisation

[Mario Lang]

Nicolas Pitre <nico at cam.org> writes:

> On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Mario Lang wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>> 
>> Wouldn't this kind of syntax make more sense to use?  The kernel does
>> all struct initialisations that way, and I have to say, I find the readability
>> of code extremely pleasant.
>> 
> [...]
>> +    name: "Modular 20+4",
>> +    identifier: 0X80,
>> +    columns: 20,
>
> Actually, that format is not used by the kernel anymore.  That was a 
> non-standard gcc extension which is being deprecated.
>
> What you probably want is the C99 standard equivalent:
>
>     .name = "Modular 20+4",
>     .identifier = 0X80,
>     .columns = 20,
>
> etc.

Oh right, of course!  Thanks for pointing this out.

-- 
CYa,
  Mario