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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A question about typedef!
Message-ID: <14539@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 20 Nov 90 17:44:06 GMT
References: <1990Nov20.153907.12373@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1990Nov20.153907.12373@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se> d0thomas@dtek.chalmers.se (Thomas Lundqvist) writes:
>Hello! Could someone please tell me the difference between:
>struct TEST { int a; };
>typedef struct { int a; } TEST

The first declares a structure tag, the second (assuming you provide a
terminating semicolon) declares a synonym for a tagless structure.

K&R probably explains this.