Re: [PATCH 1/18] splice: abstract out actor data

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 18:22 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12 2007, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:57:57 +0200
> > Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > +	struct splice_desc sd = {
> > > +		.total_len = len,
> > > +		.flags = flags,
> > > +		.pos = *ppos,
> > > +	};
> > > +
> > > +	sd.file = out;
> > 
> > minor remark, why sd.file is setup differently than other fields ?
> > 
> > (this several times on this patch)
> 
> yeah, it's inside an anonymous union, and apparently gcc doesn't like it
> being initialized that way.

The one time I had such a situation something along the lines of:

struct splice_desc sd = {
	.total_len = len,
	.flags = flags,
	.pos = *ppos,
	{ .file = out },
};

worked.

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