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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Multiple typedefs
Keywords: typedefs, includes, defines
Message-ID: <10196@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 3 May 89 10:53:57 GMT
References: <2322@lethe.UUCP> <10167@smoke.BRL.MIL> <2402@lethe.UUCP> <10190@smoke.BRL.MIL> <12937@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <12937@haddock.ima.isc.com> suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com (Stephen Uitti) writes:
>Option 1) is what my choice would have been at the dawn of time
>(which is sometime before i knew any C).  Typedef functionality
>can be obtained with #defines.

Only in simple cases.  In complicated situations, typedefs are
practically essential.

None of your four options (plus other suggestions X3J11 considered)
struck me as feasible.  Nice try but no cigar.