From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: coding style question
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 20:28:45 -0500
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To: Jay Denebeim <denebeim@deepthot.org>
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Two reasons I can think of off the top of my head:
* POSIX prefers "struct foo" as opposed to "foo" or "foo_t"

* typedefs obscure the fact that a data structure is in fact a 
structure, and not a native machine type.  Typically typedefs are best 
used for discrete elements those contents are either opaque or a single 
value.

	Jeff