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Re: Problem with "dashless options"

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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Apr 27, 2010, 21:28 UTC
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Christopher Cameron <christopher.cameron@live.com> writes:
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> I encountered the exact same problem.  There are a sequence of
> #defines in parse_options.h which are supposed to initialize option
> structs (OPT_END, OPT_STRING, etc).  These structures only partially 
> initialize the structure, leading to, for instance, junk bits in the flags 
> word of OPT_STRING.

That's a bug in your compiler. All parts of the struct that are not explicitly initialized are supposed to be implicitly initialized to zero.

Andreas.
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