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From: schmidt@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin Schmidt)
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Subject: Re: A question about typedef!
Message-ID: <1990Nov20.210335.25763@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 20 Nov 90 21:03:35 GMT
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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

Both structures are identical but references to the structure as a type are
different.  For the first case to declare a variable of that type you would
use:
	struct TEST x;
In the second case you would simply use:
	TEST x;

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