What does struct do in C?

A struct in the C programming language (and many derivatives) is a composite data type (or record) declaration that defines a physically grouped list of variables under one name in a block of memory, allowing the different variables to be accessed via a single pointer or by the struct declared name which returns the …

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What is _t in C?

The _t usually wraps an opaque type definition . GCC merely add names that end with _t to the reserved namespace you may not use, to avoid conflicts with future versions of Standard C and POSIX (GNU C library manual).

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Why would you use typedef?

The typedef keyword allows the programmer to create new names for types such as int or, more commonly in C++, templated types–it literally stands for “type definition”. Typedefs can be used both to provide more clarity to your code and to make it easier to make changes to the underlying data types that you use .

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