Hello GCC community,
Designated initializers can be used in arrays to initialize by index:
int a[6] = { [4] = 29, [2] = 15 }
and by range:
int a[6] = { [2 ... 4] = 5 }
but it seems there's no syntax to initialize all the "others" of the elements,
i.e those not
specified by any initializer.
After a bit of playing around, I found that you can override previous
initializers. So
it allows to make defaults this way:
int a[6] = { [0 ... 5] = -1, [2 ... 4] = 5, [5] = 15 }
However, I find this method very error prone. Designated initializers, in my
opinion, are supposed
to allow me to disregard the initialization order, because I have field names
for structs/unions,
and indices for arrays, thus the order doesn't matter.
But when I use this trick, it requires me to mind this very first line,
otherwise my array will
go terribly wrong.
Any reason GCC doesn't have a special syntax for this case?
I couldn't find anything about it online / in this list.
Thanks,
Yonatan
