Re: C99 Initialisers

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Followup to:  <20030813000841.GP10015@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
By author:    Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 12:53:24AM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> > What would be *really* nice, would be the ability to do something
> > to the effect of..
> 
> While we're off in never-never land, it'd be nice to specify default
> values for struct initialisers.  eg, something like:
> 
> struct pci_device_id {
>         __u32 vendor = PCI_ANY_ID;
>         __u32 device = PCI_ANY_ID;
>         __u32 subvendor = PCI_ANY_ID;
> 	__u32 subdevice = PCI_ANY_ID;
>         __u32 class = 0;
> 	__u32 class_mask = 0;
>         kernel_ulong_t driver_data = 0;
> };
> 
> Erm, hang on a second ...  Since when are PCI IDs 32-bit?  What is this
> ridiculous bloat?  You can't even argue that this makes things pack
> better since this packs equally well:
> 

I usually find that treating VID:DID and SVID:SDID as two 32-bit
numbers makes a lot more sense than four 16-bit fields.

	-hpa
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