As Greg Hewgill said, the typedef means you no longer have to write struct all over the place. That not only saves keystrokes, it also can make the code cleaner since it provides a smidgen more abstraction. Stuff like becomes cleaner when you don’t need to see the “struct” keyword all over the place, it looks more … Read more
As Greg Hewgill said, the typedef means you no longer have to write struct all over the place. That not only saves keystrokes, it also can make the code cleaner since it provides a smidgen more abstraction. Stuff like becomes cleaner when you don’t need to see the “struct” keyword all over the place, it looks more … Read more
The common idiom is using both: They are different definitions. To make the discussion clearer I will split the sentence: In the first line you are defining the identifier S within the struct name space (not in the C++ sense). You can use it and define variables or function arguments of the newly defined type … Read more
It documents your intent – you will be storing small numbers, rather than a character. Also it looks nicer if you’re using other typedefs such as uint16_t or int32_t.