Re: RFA: ``set mips abi''

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:

|> > >You can do it very easily with designated initializers, but they are
|> > >not adequately portable.  You can do it very easily building the array
|> > >at runtime but why bother?  Keeping two lists in sync is not the most
|> > >complicated thing in the world.
|> > 
|> > (what's a designated initializer?)
|> 
|> I think I'm mixing terms here; I'm thinking of two language extensions
|> in GCC and c99.  The pertinent one is:

The term is correct, but the C99 syntax is different.

|> void *array[] = {
|>   [1] NULL,
|>   [2] some_void_ptr,
|>   [3] NULL,
|> };

void *array[] = {
  [1] = NULL,
  [2] = some_void_ptr,
  [3] = NULL,
};

|> I think you can use enum values as the tags but I'm not quite sure.

You can use any constant expression in an array designator.

Andreas.

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