Re: [Dev-C++] structs

[<de...@ci...>]

In the first form you have two different types, and you can use either.

For instance

  struct _Human fred;
  Human joe;
  
Note that it is simply to avoid always having to refer to struct _Human 
that the typedef is used. This is traditional C usage.  

In C++ on the other hand the second form is used, and the type is Human, 
not struct Human.

So you can use 

   Human joe;

C++ compilers will compile the first form too, but the resulting types 
will be _Human and Human unless there is an extern "C" block surrounding 
the declaration.

In article <BAY...@ho...>, 
coo...@ho... (Noorez Kassam) wrote:

> what is the difference between these two
> 
> typedef struct _Human
> {
>    int height;
> }Human;
> 
> struct Human
> {
>   int height;
> };
> 
> 
> and in the first one, what does 'Human' mean at the end? In both 
> structs u can declare a Human type, even without the Human thing at the 
> end in the first one