Initialised record fields - Gpc

20 Jun 1997


      Hi all,
It seems that one cannot have record fields pre-initialised to
certain values (or am I missing something?) - see the code
below. It would be useful to be able to do this in GPC, otherwise,
it would be hard or impossible to translate many C structures
(some of which are declared with fields initialised certain values)
to Pascal (this makes it impossible to translate the whole of the
cygwin32 structures.h for example). Is it possible to add support
for this to GPC? Thanks! Below is my test program which does
not work ....
program testfoo;
Type foo = record
   a : integer value -3;  { error here }
   b : word value 600;  { ditto }
end;
Procedure foobar ( var f : foo );
begin
  with f do begin
     writeln ( a );
     writeln ( b );
  end;
end;
Var
bar : foo;
begin
  with bar do begin
     a := -200;
     b := 0;
  end;
  foobar ( bar );
end.
Best regards, The Chief 
Dr Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief, and the Great Elephant)
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