From: dave.hellewell@gmail.com (Dave Hellewell)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Why use "." in the struct in this way?
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 01:24:29 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F6892D.5030205@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+5jrf=Nr7qEEiSwU416CkFtCwj6juiLsN-0-xTmn=8K5dPq4A@mail.gmail.com>
On 30/07/13 00:56, lx wrote:
> hi all:
> why use the struct in this way by "."
>
> for example, *.owner* instead of *owner* , why?
It's utilising a feature known as designated initialisers. Essentially,
using this technique, struct members may be initialised out of order
from the way the struct is defined.
cf.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struct_(C_programming_language)#Struct_initialization
Cheers,
Dave
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-29 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-29 14:56 Why use "." in the struct in this way? lx
2013-07-29 15:20 ` Prashant Shah
2013-07-29 15:22 ` Alexandru Juncu
2013-07-29 15:24 ` Dave Hellewell [this message]
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