A friend asked this question and I could not answer him. I'd like to
find him an answer and I know these two newsgroups to be very
valuable. I am cross-posting to comp.std.c as well as comp.std.c++
because I'm not sure if this is a C feature, or C++ feature. Thank
you. Assume in his question that Uint8 is typedef'd as unsigned char.

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Steve,

Here's an example of what I was asking about:

void foo(Uint8 a, Uint8 b)
{
   Uint8 bar[] = {0xfa, 0xf3, 0x20, 0, 0, a, b};
   ...
}

Used to be I couldn't do that (Charla used to hear me whine about it
all the time, 'cause I could do it in other languages). But now I can.
Do you know at what point in time in our compiler history this became
possible?

Do you know whether this has always been valid under ANSI C++, or is
it a gcc-specific feature, or what?

- Curious George
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Steve

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