ANSI C idea: structure literals (and short constants)

[Henry Spencer]

>I don't believe that K&R anywhere specify the semantics of casting structs;
>perhaps X3J11 does.  I am sure that there is a fair amount of (non-portable)
>code out there which assumes that such casts are interpreted as "take as".

I doubt it, given that most existing compilers refuse to cast structs at all.
X3J11 says you can't cast structs (except to void).  K&R doesn't mention the
issue at all, since it dates back to a time when there were no struct values
at all.
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