On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 17:50 +0530, Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar wrote:
> [...]
> > I have came across, this kind of structure initialization for the
> > first time:
> [...]
> > [ICMP_ADDRESSREPLY] = {
> > .output_entry = ICMP_MIB_OUTADDRMASKREPS,
> > .input_entry = ICMP_MIB_INADDRMASKREPS,
> > .handler = icmp_address_reply,
> > },
> > };
> >
> >
> > I am not sure what those indexes are for: for example
> > [ICMP_ADDRESSREPLY].
> You tell the C compiler that the above element should be at index
> ICMP_ADDRESSREPLY (which must be a compile-time constant of course and
> counting starts with 0 - as always in C).
>
But why is implicit indexing required, it would anyways be indexed from 0?