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<<On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 12:16:44 -0500 (EST), Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com> said:

> How do you easily forward declare something that is a typedef?

There is a reason style(9) says not to use such typedefs.
Unfortunately, this one it written into a standard.  Since We Are The
Implementation, there is no difficulty in simply writing the
appropriate structure type into the relevant declarations.

-GAWollman


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