Is there a good way to force type incompatibility in C?

Question

For purposes of type checking I would like to define a function on the lines of

void myfunc(type1 a, type2 b)
{
...
}

where type1

Answer 1

You could wrap the two types in a Struct.

typedef struct {
    uint8_t data;
} type1;

typedef struct {
    uint8_t data;
} type2;

Edit: I don't like it because you now have to use a.data instead of a