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From: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Date: 28 May 2002 07:45:39 -0700
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>>>>> "J" == J A Magallon <J.A.> writes:

    J> Problem is that named initializers '.xx =' are ISO C99, so
    J> problably they are not supported in gcc till 3.0...the old way
    J> is working with older compilers.

I actually tried it :).  gcc 2.95 supports named initializers as well:

$ cat a.c
struct foo {
  int x;
  int y;
};

struct foo bar = {
  .y = 2,
  .x = 1
};

int main() {
  printf("%d\n", bar.x);
  return 0;
}

$ gcc a.c
$ ./a.out
1
$ gcc --version
2.95.2

Best,
 Roland