What's the difference between these two declarations?
struct x1 { ... };
typedef struct { ... } x2;
The first form declares a structure tag; the second declares a typedef. The main difference is that the second declaration is of a slightly more abstract type--its users don't necessarily know that it is a structure, and the keyword struct is not used when declaring instances of it.
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