scope of a structure tag

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <18915 at agate.BERKELEY.EDU> holub at violet.berkeley.edu () writes:
>Does the scope of a structure tag extend from the point of declaration to
>the end of the current compound statement or whatever (as I suspect) or
>can you define substructures with identical tags but different fields? 

Structure tags have file, block, or (with ANSI C) prototype scope,
depending on where they occur.  The {} in a structure declaration
do not delimit a block.

>Is my assumption correct?

Yes.