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Asked: 2026-05-18T11:47:49+00:00

I personally don’t like old C-style of struct declarations like that: typedef struct {}

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I personally don’t like old C-style of struct declarations like that:

typedef struct {} NewType;

ctags makes ugly anon types of this and make the debugging difficult. Is there any reason in C++ code using typedef struct instead of simply struct, except the code is used in both C and C++?

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Valentin

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  1. Editorial Team

    One major drawback of those

    typedef struct tagSomethingSomething SomethingSomething;

    is that, forward-declarations are not possible with the commonly used typedef’fed name.

    Yes, it’s a C-ism (kudos sbi) and there are c++-codebases, where it – unfortunately – (still) is common.

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