Apparently some users would like to see what happens to omitted field
members when initializing a structure in GCC docs.
Ok for trunk?
2014-03-25 Marek Polacek <pola...@redhat.com>
PR c/39525
* doc/extend.texi (Designated Inits): Describe what happens to omitted
field members.
diff --git gcc/doc/extend.texi gcc/doc/extend.texi
index c0da713..90bf6d8 100644
--- gcc/doc/extend.texi
+++ gcc/doc/extend.texi
@@ -1967,6 +1967,9 @@ Another syntax that has the same meaning, obsolete since
GCC 2.5, is
struct point p = @{ y: yvalue, x: xvalue @};
@end smallexample
+Omitted field members are implicitly initialized the same as objects
+that have static storage duration.
+
@cindex designators
The @samp{[@var{index}]} or @samp{.@var{fieldname}} is known as a
@dfn{designator}. You can also use a designator (or the obsolete colon
Marek
