Struct definition in MS-C

[Carl Paukstis]

In article <Aug.16.14.48.38.1989.11505 at caip.rutgers.edu> shuang at caip.rutgers.edu (Shuang Chen) writes:
>I am trying to use struct to implement a linked list with Microsoft C.
>typedef struct {
>	...
>	node *next;
>	} node;
>
>Actually I tried to use
>
>struct node {
>	...
>	struct node *next;
>	};
>as it is with standard C, but this doesn't work with MS-C.

Chen doesn't mention which version of MSC - both of the above constructs
work just fine with v5.10, even in "W3" (bitchy) warning mode they
(properly) don't generate any messages whatsoever.

However, I can see how MS could have implemented a version which choked
on the first construct but compiled the second OK.  I'm certainly no
compiler guru, but it seems to me that the second example gives the
compiler some needed information sooner.

Would things improve if we changed the first example to start with
  typedef struct node {...
?

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