Anonymous union within struct not in c99?

Question

here is very simplified code of problem I have:

enum node_type {
    t_int, t_double
};

struct int_node {
    int value;
};

struct double_node {
    double valu         


        

Answer 1

Well, the solution was to name instance of the union (which can remain anonymous as datatype) and then use that name as a proxy.

$ diff -u old_us.c us.c 
--- old_us.c    2010-07-12 13:49:25.000000000 +0200
+++ us.c        2010-07-12 13:49:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
   union {
     struct int_node int_n;
     struct double_node double_n;
-  };
+  } data;
 };

 int main(void) {
@@ -23,6 +23,6 @@
   i.value = 10;
   struct node n;
   n.type = t_int;
-  n.int_n = i;
+  n.data.int_n = i;
   return 0;
 }

Now it compiles as c99 without any problems.

$ cc -std=c99 us.c 
$ 

Note: I am not happy about this solution anyway.