Re: [avr-gcc-list] Problem with union

[Eric Fu]

Ted Roth Wrote:
 
> You can do that initialization outside of a function, but you'd have to
> do it like this:
> 
>   TwoBytes ThisNodeID = { 1 };
> 
> or more explicitly, like this:
> 
>   TwoBytes ThisNodeID = { .wForm = 1 };
> 
> What you did with
> 
>   ThisNodeID.wForm = 1;
> 
> is not really an initialization, but an assignment operation and you
> can't do operations outside of a function in C, thus the compiler
> warning (the real C gurus on the list can correct me if my understanding
> of this is deficient).
> 
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> Ted Roth
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Thanks for the explaination. It works great.

Eric Fu