Is this legal ANSI?

[Henry Spencer]

In article <1991Jan14.225620.9974 at demott.com> kdq at demott.com (Kevin D. Quitt) writes:
>    Microsoft C 6.0 accepts:
>struct	master_log_entry
>   {
>    struct  log_entry	le;
>    union
>       {
>        struct	gas_log_entry       gle;
>		...
>       };
>   };
>
>	mle.gle.<reference to inside of gas_log_entry struct>
>	...
>
>    without a complaint.  Am I just lucky?

Yes.  Nameless members are illegal in ANSI C (except for the special case
of nameless bitfields).  Some compilers support this as an extension.
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