[Ilugc] Structure alignment & Internal Paddin

[Binand Sethumadhavan]

On 13/08/06, amit saha <dandolls at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> I am still in the dark about this "anonymous structure".

A normal struct would look like:

struct foo {
   int something;
   char something_else;
};

And then you can have:

struct foo hello, world;
struct foo *fooptr = hello;

And so on, wherever you want.

An anomymous structure is one that omits the name for the structure;
here foo. It is useful only for one declaration:

struct {
   int something;
   char somethingelse;
} hello, world;

If you at a later time need another of these structs, you need to
define the struct all over again (for example, the fooptr above). It
is a valid C structure, but its usefulness is dubious. It is so much
easier to follow the first version so as to maintain the structure
definition in one place.

> The question is still though unanswered.

What is the question about the original struct?

Binand