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Subject: Re: [RFC] perf: perf_event_attr anon unions and static initializer issue
From: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
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On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 12:36 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>
>> struct perf_event_attr attr = { .config = 0x1234, .config1 = 0x456 };
>
>> Does anyone have a better solution to propose?
>
>
>   struct perf_event_attr attr = {
>         .config = 0x1234,
>         { .config1 = 0x5678 },
>   };
>
> sometimes works, but apparently not in this case.. its a bit unfortunate
> indeed. EDG based compilers and the latest C std use your version --
> hence also 4.6 supporting it.
>
> Yeah, I'm afraid we're stuck with this until a future where modern C
> isn't modern anymore.

Yeah, unfortunately.
I ended up creating a separate table for config1 and initializing attr.config1
at runtime. That way it works regardless of the compiler....