Re: Code review requested

From	Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Code review requested
Date	2012-09-25 09:30 +1200
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On 09/25/12 07:50, James Kuyper wrote:
> On 09/24/2012 03:41 PM, Ian Collins wrote:
>> On 09/25/12 04:16, Nick Keighley wrote:
>>> On Sep 24, 10:05 am, David Brown<da...@westcontrol.removethisbit.com>
>>> wrote:
> ....
>>>> I find pointer typedefs are often useful - and in some cases they are
>>>> essential.
>>>
>>> I've never found them essential.
>>
>>
>> The are in the case of an opaque type.
>
> Could you expound on that a little more? I've written code using opaque
> types that were always referred to in the user code as struct
> myOpaqueType*, with no definition provided about what the members of
> that struct were. I made no use of a typedef while writing such code -
> was I doing something wrong?

Something like pthread's pthread_t type.  On some platforms it is a 
struct, on others an integer type.

In other words types where the underlying type may be a struct, or it 
may be something else.

-- 
Ian Collins

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Code review requested bart.vandewoestyne@gmail.com - 2012-09-20 02:27 -0700
  Re: Code review requested Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-09-20 11:44 +0100
    Re: Code review requested Bart Vandewoestyne <bart.vandewoestyne@gmail.com> - 2012-09-20 08:30 -0700
      Re: Code review requested Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-09-20 16:48 +0100
        Re: Code review requested Bart Vandewoestyne <bart.vandewoestyne@gmail.com> - 2012-09-20 13:38 -0700
        Re: Code review requested Bart Vandewoestyne <MyFirstName.MyLastName@telenet.be> - 2012-09-20 23:00 +0200
      Re: Code review requested ImpalerCore <jadill33@gmail.com> - 2012-09-20 09:02 -0700
        Re: Code review requested Bart Vandewoestyne <MyFirstName.MyLastName@telenet.be> - 2012-09-20 23:13 +0200
          Re: Code review requested Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-09-22 22:16 +0000
        Re: Code review requested Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-20 16:54 -0700
          Re: Code review requested ImpalerCore <jadill33@gmail.com> - 2012-09-21 12:10 -0700
          Re: Code review requested David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2012-09-23 12:47 +0200
            Re: Code review requested Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-23 03:54 -0700
            Re: Code review requested "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-09-23 14:07 +0100
            Re: Code review requested Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2012-09-23 15:13 -0700
              Re: Code review requested Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-23 15:39 -0700
                Re: Code review requested Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-09-24 10:46 +1200
                Re: Code review requested Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-23 17:30 -0700
                Re: Code review requested Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-09-24 14:05 +1200
                Re: Code review requested Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-24 00:26 -0700
                Re: Code review requested David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2012-09-24 11:03 +0200
                Re: Code review requested Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-09-24 09:16 -0700
                Re: Code review requested David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2012-09-24 18:25 +0200
                Re: Code review requested Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-09-25 04:49 -0700
                Re: Code review requested Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-09-25 07:41 +1200
                Re: Code review requested James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-09-24 15:50 -0400
                Re: Code review requested Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-09-25 09:30 +1200
                Re: Code review requested Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-24 12:45 -0700
                Re: Code review requested Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-24 16:10 -0700
                Re: Code review requested David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2012-09-25 09:02 +0200
                Re: Code review requested "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-09-24 10:47 +0100
                Re: Code review requested David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2012-09-24 13:41 +0200
                Re: Code review requested "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-09-24 13:40 +0100
                Re: Code review requested David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2012-09-24 15:31 +0200
                Re: Code review requested Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-09-24 15:14 +0100
                Re: Code review requested David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2012-09-24 17:40 +0200
                Re: Code review requested Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-09-24 18:11 +0100
                Re: Code review requested Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2012-09-24 11:13 -0700
                Re: Code review requested Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-09-24 20:52 +0100
                Re: Code review requested "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-09-24 16:22 +0100
                Re: Code review requested Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-09-24 16:46 +0100
                Re: Code review requested David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2012-09-24 18:22 +0200
                Re: Code review requested Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-24 12:52 -0700
                Re: Code review requested Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-24 13:59 -0700
                Re: Code review requested David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2012-09-24 08:43 +0200
                Re: Code review requested Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2012-09-23 16:03 -0700
                Re: Code review requested Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-09-24 11:10 +1200
        Re: Code review requested Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-09-24 00:49 -0700
      Re: Code review requested Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-09-21 07:19 +1200
        Re: Code review requested Bart Vandewoestyne <bart.vandewoestyne@gmail.com> - 2012-09-20 13:29 -0700
          Re: Code review requested ImpalerCore <jadill33@gmail.com> - 2012-09-20 13:48 -0700
            Re: Code review requested James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-09-20 17:09 -0400
              Re: Code review requested ImpalerCore <jadill33@gmail.com> - 2012-09-20 14:52 -0700
                Re: Code review requested James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-09-20 18:48 -0400
                Re: Code review requested Francois Grieu <fgrieu@gmail.com> - 2012-09-21 09:53 +0200
                Re: Code review requested Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2012-10-01 07:43 -0400
                Re: Code review requested ImpalerCore <jadill33@gmail.com> - 2012-09-21 08:55 -0700
          Re: Code review requested Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-09-20 16:59 -0400
            Re: Code review requested hormelfree@gmail.com - 2012-09-20 17:39 -0700
          Re: Code review requested Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-09-20 23:23 +0100
            Re: Code review requested Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-20 16:48 -0700
          Re: Code review requested David Thompson <dave.thompson2@verizon.net> - 2012-10-11 03:01 -0400
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