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From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: mutual reference in structures
Message-ID: <539@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 89 14:42:44 GMT
References: <6712@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Organization: Lakart Corporation, Newton, MA
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From article <6712@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>, by bouma@cs.purdue.EDU (William J. Bouma):
> Please tell me how to get C to accept the following or equivalent code:
> 
> typedef union a {
>     b_ *pb;
> } a_;
> 
> typedef struct b {
>     a_ va;
> } b_;

Trivial.

Get rid of the typedefs.

union a {
    struct b *pb;
};

struct b {
    union a va;
};

works just fine on my compiler. (Greenhills family)

Yet another reason not to get typedef happy :-)
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