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What's the difference between these two declarations, and is one preferred over the other?
typedef struct IOPORT {
GPIO_TypeDef* port;
u16 pin;
} IOPORT;
typedef struct {
GPIO_TypeDef* port;
u16 pin;
} IOPORT;
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The C language contains the typedef keyword to allow users to provide alternative names for the primitive (e.g., int) and user-defined (e.g struct) data types. Remember, this keyword adds a new name for some existing data type but does not create a new type.
Basically struct is used to define a structure. But when we want to use it we have to use the struct keyword in C. If we use the typedef keyword, then a new name, we can use the struct by that name, without writing the struct keyword.
Typedefs provide a level of abstraction away from the actual types being used, allowing you, the programmer, to focus more on the concept of just what a variable should mean. This makes it easier to write clean code, but it also makes it far easier to modify your code.
typedef is used to define new data type names to make a program more readable to the programmer. For example: | main() | main() { | { int money; | typedef int Pounds; money = 2; | Pounds money = 2 } | } These examples are EXACTLY the same to the compiler.
the first allows you to use IOPORT inside the struct for refering to objects of the same type. useful in cases such as linked lists where a node has to refer to a node.
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