compound-literals – Tarik Billa

C compound literals, pointer to arrays

December 14, 2023 by Tarik

First, the casts are redundant in all of your examples and can be removed. Secondly, you are using the syntax for initializing a multidimensional array, and that requires the second dimension the be defined in order to allocate a sequential block of memory. Instead, try one of the two approaches below: Multidimensional array: int p[][3] … Read more

Are compound literals Standard C++?

November 28, 2023 by Tarik

This is an extension that both gcc and clang support. The gcc document says: As an extension, GCC supports compound literals in C90 mode and in C++, though the semantics are somewhat different in C++. if you build with -pedantic you should receive a warning, for example clang says (see it live): warning: compound literals … Read more