Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
1) What's the difference between:
struct customStruct { int RecID; char *Name; };
and
typedef struct customStruct { int RecID; char *Name; };
??
I had the latter, but when I started moving my code into different files to reorganize things, gcc started giving me warnings. The warnings went away when I moved to the former. I can't quite figure out what the difference is. Is one correct and the other not?
I'm not sure whether the second is illegal or not, but in any case it doesn't make any sense
Oddly enough, that's about what the error gcc gave me said.
<snip>
If you're sticking to strictly ANSI C like this, the comp.lang.c
newsgroup is a good place to go. More useful is its FAQ, which you can find at "http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/faq.html";. There
are other newsgroups on C, including one for learners, but I don't
have the precise name at hand.
Thanks. That's another excellent link!
A good book might be a better bet, though. Both Kernighan & Ritchie and Harbison & Steele have discussions of typedefs that show how to use them with structures.
Heh. I'll look into those. The book I have seems good most of the time, but I wasn't getting a real understanding of typedef from it.
-- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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