Question

I understand the whole typedef-ing a struct in C concept so that you can avoid using the keyword struct whenever you use it. I’m still a little confused about what’s going on here though.

Can someone tell me the various things this structure definition is doing?

typedef struct work_tag {
    //contents.
} work_t, *work_p;

Answer 1

It defines two typedefs, like:

typedef struct work_tag {
    //contents.
} work_t;

typedef struct work_tag *work_p;