[mbreedlove]

I've always struggled with this, I usually use the first style. To me, Bark and Bark* are both types, while the name p_dog is just a name regardless of what it's referring to.

I read the first as 'a struct of type Bark pointer named p_dog'.

How do you read the second example in your head?

[bigdict]

https://eigenstate.org/notes/c-decl

[rootbear]

Pointer to type "struct Bark".