From: md3den AT mdstud DOT chalmers DOT se (Dennis Bjorklund)
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Subject: Re: Difference between struct setups
Date: 23 Oct 1997 07:03:39 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology
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In article <199710130605 DOT TAA20415 AT fep1-orange DOT clear DOT net DOT nz>,
	"Jamie Love" <jamie DOT love AT clear DOT net DOT nz> writes:

JL>typedef struct X
JL> {
JL>    .....
JL> } X;
JL>..
JL>X x;

This is the way you often use in C. (but it works in C++ too)

JL>Now, when i was programming in borlands compiler, i just went:
JL>
JL>struct X
JL> {
JL>   .....
JL> };
JL>..
JL>X x;

And this only works in C++. If this had been C then you would have to write
"struct X x" istead of "X x". So it works in djgpp if you compile it as
a C++ program.

The C example above typdefs the name X to be the structure. So you can
write just X x. In C++ this is done automaticly. 

JL>struct X
JL> {
JL>   .....
JL> }y;

This is valid in both C and C++.

-- 
/Dennis