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From: mbrennan@swift.cs.tcd.ie
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A question about typedef!
Message-ID: <1990Nov22.133716.7529@swift.cs.tcd.ie>
Date: 22 Nov 90 13:37:16 GMT
References: <1990Nov20.153907.12373@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin
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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:
> 
> (1)  struct TEST { int a; };
> 
> (2)  typedef struct { int a; } TEST

With case (1) you would delcare a variable:    struct TEST foo ;
but with case (2) you would write              TEST foo ;

In case (1) the words "struct TEST" together are a type, in the same way
as int, char long etc are types, but with case (2) the word "TEST" on it's
own is a type.
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