Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> schrieb am Mo., 12. Dez. 2016 um
22:56 Uhr:

>
> Why are we writing code like this?
>
> struct font_driver const nsfont_driver =
>   {
>   type: LISPSYM_INITIALLY (Qns),
>   case_sensitive: true,
>   ...
>   };
>
> and not like this?
>
> struct font_driver const nsfont_driver =
>   {
>   .type = LISPSYM_INITIALLY (Qns),
>   .case_sensitive = true,
>   ...
>   };
>
> The former is a deprecated GCC extension.  The latter is the standard.
> We need C99 these days anyway.
>
>
Probably just an accident. There doesn't seem to be a ban on C99 designated
initializers; for example, I've added some to emacs-module.c