Re: [avr-gcc-list] Possible minor bug

[Georg-Johann Lay]

On 02.08.2016 03:09, Eric Tang wrote:
> Hi avr-gcc mailing list,
>
> I think I have discovered a minor bug. I get the "initializer element is
> not constant" error when I try to compile the following code with avr-gcc.
> If I remove the cast, the code compiles without issue. However, its
> presence does not cause a similar error when I try to compile the code with
> Clang or with arm-none-eabi-gcc, leading me to believe that there is in
> fact a bug and that it is specific to avr-gcc.
>
> struct color {
>     uint8_t r;
>     uint8_t g;
>     uint8_t b;
> } color = (struct color){ 255, 255, 255 };
>
> Thanks,
> Eric

Just avoid the compound literal and use a vanilla initializer:

struct color {
    uint8_t r;
    uint8_t g;
    uint8_t b;
} color = { 255, 255, 255 };


cf. also GCC's C language extension re. compound literals

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compound-Literals.html