Thread: struct

hello again,
In books that I have read, the way to declare a struct is as shown in (a)
However, I have seen code which is shown in (b)


a)
struct node{
int number;
};

and this

b)
struct {
int number;
}node;

note that 'node' is in front in (a) and 'node' is at the back in (b)

Are they the same? what's the purpose of declaring a struct as shown in (b)?

thanks

personally i use the example from B, however i would do something like:

Code:

struct node
{ 
  int number; 
} NODE;

the advantage of putting the node bit at the end is that to create a new variable using this structure, you can simple do:

Code:

NODE newvariable;
newvariable.number=5;

basically they both do the same thing, if youre doing a linked list you'll definately have to do it the same way as a but can also do it like the way above which is what i use. Hope this clarifies things.

What the second example might be inting at is the ability for you to decalre some instances of the struct inline, without having to declare them in a seperate instruction.