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Re: c/9469: [3.2/3.3/3.4 regression] initializer element is (allegedly)not constant
- From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth at ticam dot utexas dot edu>
- To: nobody at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: gcc-prs at gcc dot gnu dot org,
- Date: 28 Jan 2003 16:06:00 -0000
- Subject: Re: c/9469: [3.2/3.3/3.4 regression] initializer element is (allegedly)not constant
- Reply-to: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth at ticam dot utexas dot edu>
The following reply was made to PR c/9469; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@ticam.utexas.edu>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: akpm@digeo.com, <gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: c/9469: [3.2/3.3/3.4 regression] initializer element is (allegedly)
not constant
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:04:53 -0600 (CST)
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On 27 Jan 2003 bangerth@dealii.org wrote:
>
> > Confirmed. This used to compile until 3.0, but fails with
> > 3.2, 3.3, 3.4. I must admit that I don't know exactly
> > whether this is legal code, but it looks like, and in this
> > case it is a regression
>
> It has never been valid C to use an expression of aggregate type as part
> of an initializer, only as a the whole initializer, though the broken old
> implementation of compound literals may have allowed this. I'll leave it
> up to Jakub to decide whether it makes any sense to allow this as another
> compatibility case of compound literals in gnu89 mode.
Thanks for clarifying this. Did you notify Jakub of this report? He's not
on the CC:-list.
W.
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