From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 12:05:27 -0400
From: Andrew C Bulhak acb@cs.monash.edu.au
Subject: Set User (aka su)
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[Byron Rakitzis]
> 
> See Ken Thomson's paper on his C compiler. It is an extension used to
> map enum constants to array indices. So
> 
> 	char *msg_string[] = {
> 		[ENOENT] "No such file or directory",
> 	}
> 
> would yield
> 
> 	msg_string[ENOENT] == "No such file or directory"

I think I missed the original message. I know that GNU C has this extension;
which other compilers support it? Does Plan 9's PCC?

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