"Chen,Xi" <xichen@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I'm looking into Linux kernel source and have found some
> declarations like that:
>
> static struct file_operations apm_bios_fops = {
> .owner = THIS_MODULE,
> .read = do_read,
> .poll = do_poll,
> .ioctl = do_ioctl,
> .open = do_open,
> .release = do_release,
> };
>
> After refering to Linux Device Driver 2nd Edtion, I got a term --
> "tagged initialization format". The only thing I could figure out from
> this book is that, this is an extension of GCC and it can enhance the
> portability of structure definitions. However when I tended to GCC
> infopage, I could hardly find a word about that?
It's not an extension, it's part of the current C standard from
1999. It wasn't part of the previous C standard from 1989 though.
--
Falk
