Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: self contained pointers to structures
Message-ID: <1989Nov27.164238.19322@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <10350@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 89 16:42:38 GMT

In article <10350@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> bobc@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Bob Calbridge) writes:
>struct event {
>	int	timing:
>	int	count;
>	struct	event *next;
>};
>
>Of course, the compiler complains because the definition of the structure is
>incomplete at that point...

Defective compiler.  A pointer to an incomplete type is perfectly proper,
although a variable of the type itself isn't.  (Especially not in this
case, of course!)  Your struct is quite normal and common C practice.
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