Hello Anselm, 

I achieved compiling libixp and wmii-3.5 using the compiler 
by replacing the anonymous structs and unions. In libixp I 
made it to be one big struct (thus it allocates more memory 
than that union of structs) and in wmii/fs.c I use a single 
pointer and appropriate casting for that union of pointers. 

Searching for anonymous unions/structs on the net leads me to 
the impression that this is a C++ism which has been introduced 
to the GNU C compiler. Looking at the Sun Studio 11 documentation 
there is nothing "anonymous" at all in the C User's Guide. Only 
the C++ User's Guide mentions a switch to enable some language 
extensions, including anonymous structs (which seem to be 
disallowed in standard C++).

...which leads me to the question: Is it good to make use of 
this? Wouldn't it be better to replace it with either type-casts 
or named unions/structs? (which are allowed for sure)

Regards,
Stefan
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