Why are structure names different from their typedef names?
In Windows header files, many structures are declared like this: typedef struct tagXYZ { ... } XYZ; typedef struct _XYZ { ... } XYZ; /* there are other variations, too */ Why is the structure name different from typedef name? This is a holdover from very Read More......(read more)
Written by The Old New Thing : History on March 26th, 2008 with
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