Re: anonymous struct problems

[Ben Guthro <bguthro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

excellent. thanks for this pointer, that worked.

For future reference on this list, this flag seems to be mutually 
exclusive to the -pedantic flag,
as well as the (naturally) -ansi flag, both of which are enabled by 
default in KDevelop.


Ben

llewelly@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Ben Guthro <bguthro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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> > I'm running into a problem that I did not have in previous versions of
> > gcc
> > (I'm running 3.3.2-1 - shipped with Redhat Fedora Core1)
> >
> >
> > previous versions of gcc only gave me warnings on this code:
> >
> > typedef struct DigitalMonitorPhotometry
> > {
> > 	union
> > 	{
> > 		struct
> > 		{
> > 			DMC Brightness;
> > 			DMC Contrast;
> > 			DMC RedGain;
> > 			DMC GreenGain;
> > 			DMC BlueGain;
> > 			DMC RedBias;
> > 			DMC GreenBias;
> > 			DMC BlueBias;
> > 		};
> > 		struct
> > 		{
> > 			DMC dmp[8];
> > 		};
> > 	};
> > }DM_PHOTOMETRYSETUP;
> >
> >
> > However, now I get:
> > error: ISO C++ prohibits anonymous structs
> >
> > This used to be a worning under previous gcc versions.
> >    
>
> If you really need this feature, try adding -fms-extensions to your
>    CFLAGS. fsf gcc 3.3.3 will compile your code with -fms-extensions
>    and 'typedef char DMC;', on i386 freebsd 5.2p2 .
>
> See http://xrl.us/budy and search for '-fms-extensions'.
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