[vox-tech] C99 - Initializing complex

[Peter Jay Salzman]

Must both parts of a complex variable be initialized:

   long double complex z = 0.0L + 0.0L*I;           (i)

or does only one part need to be initialized?

   long double complex z = 0.0L;                    (ii)

A test program shows that (ii) "works", but I couldn't find an authoritative
answer in the C99 standard.  Although I have no intention of using anything
but Linux, I still don't want to rely on GNU extensions (as much as
possible).


BTW, my copy of the C99 standard is from August 3, 1998 and appears to be a
"pre-release".  I'm a little surprised that a Google search for "C99
standard" just doesn't give a copy of the standard the way a Google search
for "US Constitution" yields the Constitution.  Where is the official copy of
this standard?

Thx,
Pete

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