Statically initialize anonymous union in C++

Question

I am trying to statically initialize the following structure in Visual Studio 2010:

struct Data
{
   int x;
   union
   {
      const Data* data;
      struc         


        

Answer 1

Change it to:

struct Data
{
   int x;
   union
   {
      const Data* data;
      char ch;
   };
};

static Data d1;
static Data d = {1, &d1};