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。

另一个总是对枚举和结构进行类型定义的原因是:

enum EnumDef
{
  FIRST_ITEM,
  SECOND_ITEM
};

struct StructDef
{
  enum EnuumDef MyEnum;
  unsigned int MyVar;
} MyStruct;

注意到结构(EnumDef)中的EnumDef中的错别字吗?这个编译没有错误(或警告)，并且(取决于C标准的字面解释)是正确的。问题是我刚刚在我的结构中创建了一个新的(空的)枚举定义。我没有(如预期)使用前面的定义EnumDef。

对于typdef，类似类型的打字错误将导致使用未知类型的编译器错误:

typedef 
{
  FIRST_ITEM,
  SECOND_ITEM
} EnumDef;

typedef struct
{
  EnuumDef MyEnum; /* compiler error (unknown type) */
  unsigned int MyVar;
} StructDef;
StrructDef MyStruct; /* compiler error (unknown type) */

我主张ALWAYS类型定义结构和枚举。

不仅是为了节省一些输入(没有双关语;))，而且因为它更安全。

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.

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。

使用typedef可以避免每次声明该类型的变量时都要写struct:

struct elem
{
 int i;
 char k;
};
elem user; // compile error!
struct elem user; // this is correct