forward declared structures
jwp at sdchema.UUCP
jwp at sdchema.UUCP
Sun Aug 5 01:09:36 AEST 1984
In article <2263 at saturn.UUCP> miller at saturn.UUCP (Terrence C. Miller) writes:
>K&R may say that the short form of the declaration may be only used
>for subsequent occurrances of the tag but those of us who write code
>which looks like:
>
> struct a { struct b *pb;
> ....
> };
>
> struct b { struct a *pa;
> ....
> };
>
>would be very upset if the compiler enforced that restriction.
*Lots* of things would be upset if that wasn't legal code. I guess the
question now is: What is the new standard going to say about this?
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