On Sunday 27 August 2006 19:28, Jim Cromie wrote:
> Ashok Sharma wrote:
> > Pl explain the following structure declaration in PCI_driver code
> >
> > static struct pci_driver foo_driver {
> > .name = “foo”,
> > .probe = foo_probe,
> > .remove = foo_remove,
> > .id_table = foo_tbl,
> > };
> >
> > consider me a novice only
>
> Ashok,
> youve been on-list a while ( at least since 12/05),
> please follow standard practice, and start a new thread to ask new
> questions.
> You may regard this as a followon, Id wager the thread participants think
> it as a backup-and-start-over.
>
>
> youre looking at a C99 initialiation of a vtable
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vtable
>
AFAIK vtables are only used in C++. Is there something that I am missing?
This way of initializing a structure/array is called designated initializing:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/gcc/designated-inits.html
tavi
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