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| From | Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Am I being too C++ like? |
| Date | 2012-02-01 17:36 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <jgceon$tt$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (3 earlier) <kfny5sn1p0y.fsf@x-alumni2.alumni.caltech.edu> <lnzkd3wirb.fsf@nuthaus.mib.org> <kfnobtjxb9g.fsf@x-alumni2.alumni.caltech.edu> <lnhazauzlw.fsf@nuthaus.mib.org> <jgc97b$va3$1@dont-email.me> |
On 2/1/2012 16:01, Stephen Sprunk wrote: > On 01-Feb-12 13:23, Keith Thompson wrote: >> Tim Rentsch<txr@alumni.caltech.edu> writes: >>> The cost of doing either of those is small. Besides, the most >>> important use case for typedef'ing a struct is to make a >>> (mostly) opaque type, in which case the header file will >>> forward-declare the struct type (without defining its contents) >>> along with the typedef, so the incremental cost of doing >>> a forward declaration is zero. >> >> Yes, if you want an opaque type, a typedef is perfectly appropriate; I >> should have mentioned that. By "opaque" in this case, I mean that the >> code that uses the type doesn't need to know or care that the type is a >> struct. >> >> I haven't seen a whole lot of code like that. > > What about FILE? Is there any implementation where that "opaque" type > _isn't_ actually a struct? > It can be an integer to index into a fixed-size array of structs, where there is a maximum number of open files. I've seen this in the boot-loader for a particular OS, I believe. -- "The stationery store has moved. Aaargh!"
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Re: Am I being too C++ like? Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2012-01-31 23:54 -0500
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Re: Am I being too C++ like? nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com - 2012-03-10 02:39 -0800
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