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Re: Anonymous structs
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Subject: Re: Anonymous structs
- From: Mumit Khan <khan at NanoTech dot Wisc dot EDU>
- Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 02:03:45 -0500
- cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Jason Merrill <jason at cygnus dot com>
Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
>
> As I recall, it's thanks to Mumit and Jason that we have anonymous
> structs in g++. (If I've misappropriated credit, I apologize to
> anyone left out.)
>
> We should add something to cp/NEWS about this, and, more importantly,
> to the extensions texinfo documentation. It would be useful for
> everyone if the behavior of this extension was laid out a little
> better. Would anyone be willing to add appropriate verbiage to
> extend.texi?
>
I essentially adapted patches from Alastair Houghton that I had been
using in x86-win32 distros and Jason and others made it work
correctly (it's been so long that I don't even remember who's done
work on it since, sigh). I'll write up a little doclet tomorrow.
Regards,
Mumit