Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Why have xxx_t typedef names (was Re: Is typedef char BUFFER[20] legal?)
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.172147.21397@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1212@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM> <1991Jan29.210100.8105@zoo.toronto.edu> <BEVAN.91Jan30084205@rhino.cs.man.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 1991 17:21:47 GMT

In article <BEVAN.91Jan30084205@rhino.cs.man.ac.uk> bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan) writes:
>What is the purpose of the "_t" ... etc. postfixes ?
>It obviously makes any variables defined by a typedef'd type very
>clear, but is that important?  I think not.

The purpose is the same as the convention of using uppercase for macro
names:  to give the poor programmer a little bit more help in figuring
out what's going on, and to minimize namespace collisions.
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