Designated initializers for fields in anonymous structs and unions

[josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

GCC 4.6 and newer support initializing designated initializers for fields in
anonymous structs and unions.  However, sparse does not.  Test case:

union U {
    int a;
    struct {
        int b;
        int c;
    };
};

static union U u = {
    .b = 0,
    .c = 0,
};

struct S {
    int a;
    union {
        int b;
        int c;
    };
};

static struct S s = {
    .a = 0,
    .b = 0,
};



GCC handles this just fine; sparse says:

test.c:10:6: error: unknown field name in initializer
test.c:11:6: error: unknown field name in initializer
test.c:24:6: error: unknown field name in initializer

Sparse needs to handle this, and we should add the above as a test case.

(We also need an appropriate extension to the test for
__attribute__((designated_init)).)

- Josh Triplett
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