Jerry wrote: > > A kind of lame offtopic question :) > What reason in 2.6 to do structure init in this way: > struct a = { > .name = value > ... > > instead of 2.4-like: > struct a = { > name: value > ... > > Is this a bad form to use ".name" in 2.4 or "name:" in 2.6? name: is the obsolete GNU gcc extension, .name = is C99. The C99 style is strongly preferred now. Thiemo