Problem with anonymous structs and unions

[Eljay Love-Jensen]

Hi,

 >How about naming the structs?

I believe naming the structs isn't the problem.  The structs need to be 
"instantiated" (so to speak) by being given a variable name.  Otherwise 
they are just declarative, not definitive.

However, I would argue that the practice of using unions to form synonyms 
is, itself, suspect.  It looks like, to me, that at one point there was a 
(religous?) naming convention war, and unions were used as a 
compromise.  Do away with the synonyms.  (C/C++ unions themselves are often 
suspect, in my opinion.)

--Eljay