In C, is it good form to use typedef for a pointer?

Question

Consider the following C code:

typedef char * MYCHAR;
MYCHAR x;

My understanding is that the result would be that x is a pointer of type \"

Answer 1

For an API it is not necessary to hide structure definitions and pointers behind "abstract" typedefs.

        /* This is part of the (hypothetical) WDBC- API
        ** It could be found in wdbc_api.h
        ** The struct connection and struct statement ar both incomplete types,
        ** but we are allowed to use pointers to incomplete types, as long as we don't
        ** dereference them.
         */
struct connection *wdbc_connect (char *connection_string);
int wdbc_disconnect (struct connection *con);
int wdbc_prepare (struct connection * con, char *statement);

int main(void)
{
  struct connection *conn;
  struct statement *stmt;
  int rc;

  conn = wdbc_connect( "host='localhost' database='pisbak' username='wild' password='plasser'" );
  stmt = wdbc_prepare (conn, "Select id FROM users where name='wild'" );

  rc = wdbc_disconnect (conn);

  return 0;
}

The above fragment compiles fine. (but it fails to link, obviously)