您(可选地)给结构的名称称为标记名称，正如前面所指出的，它本身并不是一个类型。要获得该类型，需要使用结构体前缀。

除了GTK+，我不确定tagname是否像struct类型的typedef一样常用，所以在c++中，这是可以识别的，你可以省略struct关键字，并使用tagname作为类型名:

struct MyStruct
{
  int i;
};

// The following is legal in C++:
MyStruct obj;
obj.i = 7;

Linux内核编码风格第5章给出了使用typedef的优点和缺点(主要是缺点)。

Please don't use things like "vps_t". It's a mistake to use typedef for structures and pointers. When you see a vps_t a; in the source, what does it mean? In contrast, if it says struct virtual_container *a; you can actually tell what "a" is. Lots of people think that typedefs "help readability". Not so. They are useful only for: (a) totally opaque objects (where the typedef is actively used to hide what the object is). Example: "pte_t" etc. opaque objects that you can only access using the proper accessor functions. NOTE! Opaqueness and "accessor functions" are not good in themselves. The reason we have them for things like pte_t etc. is that there really is absolutely zero portably accessible information there. (b) Clear integer types, where the abstraction helps avoid confusion whether it is "int" or "long". u8/u16/u32 are perfectly fine typedefs, although they fit into category (d) better than here. NOTE! Again - there needs to be a reason for this. If something is "unsigned long", then there's no reason to do typedef unsigned long myflags_t; but if there is a clear reason for why it under certain circumstances might be an "unsigned int" and under other configurations might be "unsigned long", then by all means go ahead and use a typedef. (c) when you use sparse to literally create a new type for type-checking. (d) New types which are identical to standard C99 types, in certain exceptional circumstances. Although it would only take a short amount of time for the eyes and brain to become accustomed to the standard types like 'uint32_t', some people object to their use anyway. Therefore, the Linux-specific 'u8/u16/u32/u64' types and their signed equivalents which are identical to standard types are permitted -- although they are not mandatory in new code of your own. When editing existing code which already uses one or the other set of types, you should conform to the existing choices in that code. (e) Types safe for use in userspace. In certain structures which are visible to userspace, we cannot require C99 types and cannot use the 'u32' form above. Thus, we use __u32 and similar types in all structures which are shared with userspace. Maybe there are other cases too, but the rule should basically be to NEVER EVER use a typedef unless you can clearly match one of those rules. In general, a pointer, or a struct that has elements that can reasonably be directly accessed should never be a typedef.

令人惊讶的是，很多人都错了。请不要在C中定义结构类型，它不必要地污染全局命名空间，在大型C程序中，全局命名空间通常已经被严重污染。

此外，没有标记名的类型定义结构是头文件之间不必要的排序关系的主要原因。

考虑:

#ifndef FOO_H
#define FOO_H 1

#define FOO_DEF (0xDEADBABE)

struct bar; /* forward declaration, defined in bar.h*/

struct foo {
  struct bar *bar;
};

#endif

使用这样的定义，不使用typedef，编译单元可以包含foo.h来获得FOO_DEF定义。如果它不试图解引用foo结构体的'bar'成员，那么就不需要包含"bar.h"文件。

此外，由于标签名和成员名之间的名称空间是不同的，因此可以编写非常可读的代码，例如:

struct foo *foo;

printf("foo->bar = %p", foo->bar);

由于名称空间是分开的，因此在命名变量时与其struct标记名一致时不存在冲突。

如果我必须维护你的代码，我会删除你的类型定义结构。

在'C'编程语言中，关键字'typedef'用于为某些对象(struct, array, function..enum类型)声明一个新名称。例如，我将使用struct-s。 在C语言中，我们经常在main函数之外声明一个struct。例如:

struct complex{ int real_part, img_part }COMPLEX;

main(){

 struct KOMPLEKS number; // number type is now a struct type
 number.real_part = 3;
 number.img_part = -1;
 printf("Number: %d.%d i \n",number.real_part, number.img_part);

}

每次我决定使用结构体类型时，我将需要这个关键字'struct 'something' name'。'typedef'将简单地重命名该类型，我可以在我的程序中随时使用这个新名称。所以我们的代码是:

typedef struct complex{int real_part, img_part; }COMPLEX;
//now COMPLEX is the new name for this structure and if I want to use it without
// a keyword like in the first example 'struct complex number'.

main(){

COMPLEX number; // number is now the same type as in the first example
number.real_part = 1;
number.img)part = 5;
printf("%d %d \n", number.real_part, number.img_part);

}

如果你有一些局部对象(结构，数组，有价值的)，将在你的整个程序中使用，你可以简单地给它一个名字使用'typedef'。

在C99中，typedef是必需的。它已经过时了，但是很多工具(比如HackRank)使用c99作为它的纯C实现。这里需要typedef。

我不是说他们应该改变(也许有两个C选项)，如果要求改变，我们这些在网站上学习面试的人将是SOL。

在C语言中，struct/union/enum是由C语言预处理器处理的宏指令(不要与处理“#include”和other的预处理器混淆)

so :

struct a
{
   int i;
};

struct b
{
   struct a;
   int i;
   int j;
};

结构b是这样展开的:

struct b
{
    struct a
    {
        int i;
    };
    int i;
    int j;
}

因此，在编译时，它在堆栈上的演变是这样的: b: int人工智能 int我 int j

这也是为什么在不能终止的déclaration循环中很难有自不同的结构，C预处理器循环。

typedef是类型说明符，这意味着只有C编译器处理它，它可以像他想要的那样优化汇编代码实现。它也不会像préprocessor那样愚蠢地使用par类型的成员，而是使用更复杂的引用构造算法，因此构造如下:

typedef struct a A; //anticipated declaration for member declaration

typedef struct a //Implemented declaration
{
    A* b; // member declaration
}A;

是允许的，功能齐全。当执行线程离开初始化函数的应用程序字段时，这个实现还允许访问编译器类型转换，并删除一些bug影响。

这意味着在C中，typedef比单独的结构体更接近c++类。