How to initialize a struct in accordance with C programming language standards

Question

I want to initialize a struct element, split in declaration and initialization. This is what I have:

typedef struct MY_TYPE {
  bool flag;
  short int value;         


        

Answer 1

I found another way to initialize structs.

The struct:

typedef struct test {
    int num;
    char* str;
} test;

Initialization:

test tt = {
    num: 42,
    str: "nice"
};

As per GCC’s documentation, this syntax is obsolete since GCC 2.5.