Anonymous struct/union in C

[Mumit Khan]

Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 09:35:42PM -0500, Mumit Khan wrote:
> >   struct person
> >   {
> >     char name[30];
> >     struct phone;
> >   } Jim = {"Jim bob", {53706, 123456}};
> 
> This is just too gross to live.  Please tell me it isn't part
> of some windows compatibility thing.

Yes, it is truly gross, and you guessed it -- it's a MSVC compatibility
thing. Fortunately, I don't see this used in the system headers, so we 
can compromise and not accept such an atrocity.

Regards,
Mumit