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From: tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Tim Northrup)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VAX C typedef oddity
Message-ID: <4147@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Date: 28 Jul 88 15:00:29 GMT
References: <880721084219.00000643081@naif.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Organization: BRS Information Technologies, Latham NY
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From article by PJS@naif.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott):
| 
| 	typedef struct _iobuf*	FILE;
| 
| I can't find mention of this post-fixed usage of the asterisk.  Is this
| equivalent to
| 
| 	typedef struct *_iobuf	FILE;

No, I think it would be equivalent to

	typedef struct _iobuf *FILE;

FILE is being defined as "pointer to _iobuf structure", the spacing
on either side of the asterisk being ignored.

But this seems strange -- every other system defines FILE not as a pointer
type, but a structure type?  Very odd.  What is going on here?

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