[splint-discuss] Parse Error on Macro, help

[raymond]

> 
> There's one more thing.  Splint is a C89 checker, not a C99 checker.
> I'm sure we all long for it to become a C99 checker, and had I world
> enough and time I'd be in there hacking it myself.  (Sadly, I don't.)
> The construction
> 
> 	struct any_msg msg = {.type = 0, .len = 4};
> 
> is new in C99; C89 did not support any form of named initialisation
> for structs, only positional.
> 
> What's the right way to do it?
> 
> 	#include <unistd.h>
> 	#include <stdio.h>
> 	#include <stdlib.h>
> 	#define MSG_COMMON_FIELDS	\
> 		u_int16_t len;		\
> 		u_int16_t type;
> 
> 	struct any_msg {
> 	    MSG_COMMON_FIELDS
> 	};
> 
> 	int main(int argc, char** argv) {
> 	    struct any_msg msg = {/*len*/ 4, /*type*/ 0};
> 
> 	    printf("msg.type = %d msg.len = %d\n", msg.type, msg.len);
> 	    return 0;
> 	}
> 	
Thanks your advices, but when I try your code, splint doesn't work, it
still has the same parse error,