typedef vs define

[Wm E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <82 at demott.COM> kdq at demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) writes:

|     Someone posted on this subject a very clear eaxmple of things that
| could be done with typedefs that couldn't be done with defines.  

  I don't have it handy, but here are a few.

typedef int *IPTR;		/* all items will be pointer to int */

typedef int SVECT[5];		/* type "array length five of int" */

  A define won't allow you to do those so you could say:

IPTR dmo1, *dmo2, dmo3[5];

SVECT xmpl1, *xmpl2, *xmpl3[5];
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