What are the differences between these two typedef styles in C?

Question

I\'m curious what the difference here is when typedefing an enum or struct. Is there any difference semantically between these two blocks?

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Answer 1

The only real difference is that in the second case, you can use something like:

enum SomeEnum x;

whereas the first only supports:

SomeEnum x;

To people who've been writing C a long time, defining a struct without the struct keyword often "feels" strange...