Re: Set with Sort routine

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On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:12:46 -0400, Pete Becker <petebecker@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Doug Harrison [MVP] wrote:

Even in C, you should specify a tag, e.g.

// C only
typedef struct MyElem
{
int value;
} MyElem;


A tag is not required in C. The only time you need one as part of a
typedef like this is when the struct has a pointer to its own type. You
can't use the typedef name for that, since it hasn't been defined yet,
so you have to use the name of the tag, along with the struct keyword.

I said "you should specify a tag" (operative word being "should") because
ISTR using a compiler that would use the "real" type name in error
messages. For types lacking a tag, it would use an invented name, which
would make error messages hard to read.

--
Doug Harrison
Visual C++ MVP
.

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