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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: phk@FreeBSD.ORG, wollman@lcs.mit.edu
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>> If I have something like this:
>
>> 	typedef struct geom_req_s geom_req;
>
>> 	struct geom_req_s {
>> 		...
>> 	};
>
>Don't do that, then.  It's horrid style anyway (IMAO), and you
>/certainly/ don't see any native Berkeley code doing that.  The style
>guide should discourage the practice if it doesn't already.

I agree.  Typedef should only be used for scalar types and function
types.

Bruce