structure problem - error or warning?

[James J. Roche]

Why does the C compiler only give a warning instead of an error on the
use of an illegal structure member. The following code example demonstrates
what I mean:

main()
	{
	struct v {
		int w;
		};

	struct x {
		int y;
		} z;

	z.w = 0;
	}

The C compiler gives the warning "illegal member use: w" on the line
z.w = 0.  It seems to me that this should be an error. Is this a bug
in the C compiler? Thanks in advance for any answers that you can provide.
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		Jim Roche
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