Initialized bitfileds - help me read

[Larry Jones]

In article <12112 at haddock.ima.isc.com>, karl at haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
> So, what is the correct way to initialize an object of type
> 	struct alpha { int a; struct beta { int :3; } b; int c; }
> , where one of the members is a struct with no initializable members?  Does
> the initializer {1,2} initialize a and c?  Or is {1,{},2} the proper (fully-
> bracketed) syntax?

The most recent draft adds a caveat to section 3.5.2.1 (Structure
and union specifiers) that "If the struct-declaration-list
contains no named members, the behavior is undefined."  Thus your
example structure is non-portable which makes the initialization
question moot.

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