Structure tag and name, why does a local variable declared as name compile?

大憨熊 提交于 2020-01-13 09:07:48

问题


In some code I saw recently there was a structure defined like this:

typedef struct tagMyStruct {
    int numberOne;
    int numberTwo;
} MYSTRUCT;

The way I understand this, tagMyStruct is the new data type and MYSTRUCT is a variable that is created right there.

At another place, this was used like this:

MYSTRUCT *pStruct = new MYSTRUCT;

and it compiled fine with Visual Studio 2010. How is that valid C++? I thought MYSTRUCT was a variable and not a type?


回答1:


No. tagMyStruct is the name of the struct. In C, unlike C++, you must explicitly use the struct keyword every time you use the struct type. For example

tagMyStruct x; //error
struct tagMyStruct x; //OK

To avoid writing struct all the time, struct tagMyStruct is typedef'd to MYSTRUCT. Now you can write

MYSTRUCT x; //ok, same as struct tagMyStruct x;

What you thought this was (a variable definition) would be without the typedef keyword, like this

struct tagMyStruct {
    int numberOne;
    int numberTwo;
} MYSTRUCT;

BTW

MYSTRUCT pStruct = new MYSTRUCT; //error cannot convert MYSTRUCT* to MYSTRUCT

is not valid C or C++ anyway. Maybe you mean

MYSTRUCT* pStruct = new MYSTRUCT; //valid C++ (invalid C - use malloc instead of new in C)

hth




回答2:


struct tagMyStruct { ... };

defines a new C++ type (class) called tagMyStruct.

struct { ... } MYSTRUCT;

defines a variable called MYSTRUCT with the given structure.

typedef struct { ... } MYSTRUCT;

defines a typedef called MYSTRUCT which is equivalent to the given anonymous struct.

typedef tagMyStruct struct { ... } MYSTRUCT;

defines a typedef called MYSTRUCT and a type called tagMyStruct. So MYSTRUCT is just a typedef for tagMyStruct. Therefore, MYSTRUCT pStruct defines a tagMyStruct called pStruct.

The assignment you gave is invalid, since new MYSTRUCT returns a pointer to MYSTRUCT.




回答3:


You are wrong, you are using typedef, i.e. MYSTRUCT is an alias for tagMyStruct. This explains how it's correct c++.

In order to create a variable, drop the typedef:

struct tagMyStruct {
    int numberOne;
    int numberTwo;
} MYSTRUCT;


来源:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4334518/structure-tag-and-name-why-does-a-local-variable-declared-as-name-compile

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