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From: Uriel Corfa <uriel@corfa.fr>
Subject: Re: C Question
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 13:18:48 +0200
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To: Randi Botse <nightdecoder@gmail.com>
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That's "designated initializers". It's C99.

It allows you to initialize some members to a specific value without
specifying the default value manually for the other ones.

Refs :
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/WG14/www/docs/n1256.pdf  chapter 6.7.=
8.6
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/comphelp/v8v101/index.jsp?topi=
c=3D/com.ibm.xlcpp8a.doc/language/ref/designators.htm

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Randi Botse <nightdecoder@gmail.com> =
wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Im looking at lscpu.c shipped by util-linux-ng-2.17, can you explain
> me how the *vir_types[] declared, is this valid C declaration?
>
> /* virtualization types */
> enum {
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0VIRT_NONE =A0 =A0 =A0 =3D 0,
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0VIRT_PARA,
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0VIRT_FULL
> };
> const char *virt_types[] =3D {
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0[VIRT_NONE] =A0 =A0 =3D N_("none"),
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0[VIRT_PARA] =A0 =A0 =3D N_("para"),
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0[VIRT_FULL] =A0 =A0 =3D N_("full")
> };
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