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Re: Anonymous Unions


Stan Katz wrote:
> 
> Does gcc support the concept of anonymous unions.

IIRC, anonymous unions are not in the C standard, and are not planned for
the C9X standard. Therefore gcc is doing the right thing and not allowing it
in standard C code.

However gcc/g++ does allow it for C++ code, because it _is_ in the C++
standard.

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