On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Troy Hanson wrote: > The range initialization syntax is a GNU extension. > > From http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Designated-Inits.html > > To initialize a range of elements to the same value, write `[first > ... last] = value'. This is a GNU extension. For example, > > int widths[] = { [0 ... 9] = 1, [10 ... 99] = 2, [100] = 3 }; > > If the value in it has side-effects, the side-effects will happen > only once, not for each initialized field by the range initializer. > > Note that the length of the array is the highest value specified > plus one. ah, that's the answer i was looking for, thanks. but that's going to cause all kinds of grief since, given that the kernel macro SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED is deprecated, what's going to happen with stuff like: arch/sparc/lib/atomic32.c: [0 ... (ATOMIC_HASH_SIZE-1)] = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED since the new macro __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED you're *supposed* to use should be invoked with the name of the lock? rday -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
