Re: C Question

That's "designated initializers". It's C99.

It allows you to initialize some members to a specific value without
specifying the default value manually for the other ones.

Refs :
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/WG14/www/docs/n1256.pdf  chapter 6.7.8.6
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/comphelp/v8v101/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.xlcpp8a.doc/language/ref/designators.htm

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Randi Botse <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Im looking at lscpu.c shipped by util-linux-ng-2.17, can you explain
> me how the *vir_types[] declared, is this valid C declaration?
>
> /* virtualization types */
> enum {
>        VIRT_NONE       = 0,
>        VIRT_PARA,
>        VIRT_FULL
> };
> const char *virt_types[] = {
>        [VIRT_NONE]     = N_("none"),
>        [VIRT_PARA]     = N_("para"),
>        [VIRT_FULL]     = N_("full")
> };
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