[WickedSmoke]

C++ has struct & typedef and things work quite naturally. It always seemed like an obvious thing to bring to C, but I'm not sure about the nuances of the rules governing this.

[uecker]

C++ had this forever (I assume), but for C this would be a breaking change which we try very hard to avoid.

[WickedSmoke]

Could you please give an example of what would break? Perhaps I'm being dense, but it seems a new C standard supporting this would still compile existing code just as C++ can.

[keyneus]

In C, it's perfectly legal to do this:

    struct S { ... };
    typedef int S;

That's not valid in C++ (so would be a breaking change in C, if it were to adopt this).

I don't really think changing this in C would break all that much code, but it's definitely not backwards compatible.