Date:	Wed, 4 Mar 1998 17:18:35 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id:	<199803050118.RAA12570@adit.ap.net>
Mime-Version:	1.0
To:	rwh AT worldonline DOT nl, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From:	Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject:	Re: struct in struct

At 11:02  3/4/1998 +0100, Reinier Heeres wrote:
>Hi!
>
>How can I define a structure that should look something like this:
>
>typedef struct {
>  int a,b,c;
>  test *children[4];
>  } test;

For self-referential structures, you must use the struct tag. Like this:

typedef struct t {
   int a, b, c;
   struct t *children[4];
} test;

Now
struct t foo;
is the same as
test foo;

For additional obscurity, the `t' above can be changed to `test', so the
struct tag and the typedef name can be the same.

Btw, this would have been better posted to a comp.lang.c group.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net

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