[BRLTTY] readable struct initialisation
Nicolas Pitre
nico at cam.org
Fri Mar 3 16:34:16 EST 2006
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.
Nicolas
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