From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:28:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Problem with &quot;dashless options&quot;
Message-ID: <m2eii0egar.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20100427T194730-644@post.gmane.org>

Christopher Cameron <christopher.cameron@live.com> writes:

> 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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