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From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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Subject: [OT] C question (typedef & structs)
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Hey gang,

Actually, 2 questions:

1) What's the difference between:

struct customStruct {
     int RecID;
     char *Name;
};

and

typedef struct customStruct {
     int RecID;
     char *Name;
};

??

I had the latter, but when I started moving my code into
different files to reorganize things, gcc started giving
me warnings.  The warnings went away when I moved to the
former.  I can't quite figure out what the difference is.
Is one correct and the other not?

2) I'm a self-taught C programmer.  That means that I know
    a lot, but I often bump into things that I should know
    (like question #1) that I don't.  Does anyone have a
    suggestion for a mailing list that would be good for
    asking questions like the above?  Keep in mind that
    I'm not an amature, I'm just not formally trained, so
    I bump into lots of areas that I'm not sure what I'm
    doing because I haven't studied it yet ;)

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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