[Ilugc] Structure alignment & Internal Paddin

[Binand Sethumadhavan]

On 13/08/06, Binand Sethumadhavan <binand at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I forgot to mention that anonymous structures are used mostly to
define new types via typedefs, like:

typedef struct {
    int something;
    char something_else;
} mystruct_t;

And then:

mystruct_t hello, world;
mystruct_t *fooptr;

etc.

Binand