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Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 12:37:01 -0400
From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] C question (typedef & structs)
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Chris Pressey wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 11:54:39 -0400
> Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hey gang,
> 
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> 
>>Actually, 2 questions:
>>
>>1) What's the difference between:
>>
>>struct customStruct {
>>     int RecID;
>>     char *Name;
>>};
>>
>>and
>>
>>typedef struct customStruct {
>>     int RecID;
>>     char *Name;
>>};
> 
> 
> The latter is incomplete.  Try
> 
>   typedef struct customStruct {
>        int RecID;
>        char *Name;
>   } MyCustomStruct;
> 
> See also
> 
> http://www.phim.unibe.ch/comp_doc/c_manual/C/SYNTAX/typedef.html

Thanks, Chris.

That reference is fantastic.  It's exactly what I've been looking
for.  I kept coming across over-simplified explanations of C when
I searched.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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