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  2. From: Tarang Deshpande <tarang@willows.com>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: beginner question
  5. Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 13:04:18 -0800
  6. Organization: NETCOM Network Operations
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  14.  
  15. Kurt Watzka wrote:
  16. > 
  17. >   struct FOO
  18. >   {
  19. >     int bar;
  20. >   }
  21. > 
  22. > FOO is the "struct tag" of that struct, i.e. you can use it to declare
  23. > variables of that type as in
  24. > 
  25. >   struct FOO s;
  26. > 
  27.  
  28. So then what does the following mean:
  29.  
  30. struct _FOO
  31. {
  32.     int    bar;
  33. } FOO;
  34.  
  35. struct _FOO s1;
  36. FOO         s2;
  37.  
  38.  
  39. Why?
  40.