[to3m]

Tagless structs can't be forward-declared.

(Obviously, this looks like a local struct, so there's possibly no need for forward declaration. But you might have a snippet to generate this sort of thing for you. Or maybe it's just force of habit. And so on.)

[masklinn]

> Or maybe it's just force of habit.

Or cargo-culting.

edit: wow somebody felt threatened. I have no shame stating that I cargo-culted exactly that for a while before I actually wondered what I was doing.

[TillE]

I'm guilty of this when writing C. I really have no desire to learn the language properly (it's hard enough to fit C++ in my brain), so I'll just follow the patterns others have set.

Microsoft does stuff like:

    typedef struct _FOO {
        ...
    } FOO, *PFOO;

Yeah ok fine, I'll do that.

[to3m]

When doing this in your own libraries, be sure to document how to generate the struct tag name from the typedef name. (MS don't do this - but they're not consistent about it anyway.) Then when people see a typedef'd struct used somewhere in a header, they'll know how to forward declare it in their own headers.

[voltagex_]

What's forward declaring mean?

[masklinn]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_declaration