[Dev-C++] question with structs

[Noorez K. <coo...@ho...>]

I tried this for a test

extern "C"
{

struct anything
{
   int a;
   int b;
};

}

but since this is a c struct then why could i create an object of the type 
like this anything a;
C doesn't allow this.

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