Thread: Is there any difference?

Is there any difference in a typedef struct and a normal struct? This works just as expected either way:

Code:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

typedef struct {
	int x, y;
} Point;

struct Point2 {
	int x, y;
};

int main() {
	Point p;
	Point2 p2;
	p.x = 3;
	p.y = 2;
	p2.x = 8;
	p2.y = 45;
	cout << p.x << " " << p.y << " " << p2.x << " " << p2.y << endl;
	return 0;
}

Is there any benefit from any way? Thanks !

I believe that the difference is just that in C, you must use typedef, where as in C++, it is optional.

It's required?? I'm guessing that's changed in C99 - or am I wrong there, too?

I'm not sure about in C99 but it did not used to be required to use typedef. You would use the typedef version if you wanted to declare the struct like:

Point p;

If you did not use typedef you had to use:

struct Point p;

May have changed in C99, not sure.

edit: In case of any confusion I'm talking about C here not C++ obviously.

Right, that seems appropriate.