typedef structure issue

[swsolutionsnv]

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#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdbool.h>

typedef struct DisplaySegment
{
   unsigned char segmentId;
   bool bInFlash;
   unsigned int iValue;
       // linked list
   DisplaySegment *nextLinkedSegment;
} ;


I am attempting to setup a linked list.
however, the compiler is throwing an error for
DisplaySegment *nextLinkedSegment;

Unknown type name 'DisplaySegment'

I have built this code using a Microsoft compiler with no issues.

Is there some other include file needed or what?


Thanks in advance

[bizulk]

typedef struct DisplaySegment
{
unsigned char segmentId;
bool bInFlash;
unsigned int iValue;
// linked list
struct DisplaySegment *nextLinkedSegment;
} MYSTRUCT ; <

[rdamon]

The basic issue is that the typedef name isn't visible until the struct definition is complete, so the struct definition can't use the typedef name.
The struct tag name is available as soon as you start the definition, so you can use it in the definition. In addition, you didn't provide the name that the typedef defined, which was presumable also supposed to be DisplaySegment.

Microsoft accepted the code, because it is really a C++ compiler, and in C++ a struct definition creates an implied typedef of the struct tag to the same name, and in C++ that typedef happens at the beginning of the struct definition.

In C, you need to refer to the type with the struct tag inside the recursive definition or do something like:

typedef struct DisplaySegment DisplaySegment;

struct DisplaySegment {
...
DisplaySegment* nextLinkedSegment;
};

Note, creating the typedef before the definition of the struct.

[swsolutionsnv]

To both the respondents:

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

with both explanations, I have been able to move on with my port.

When I learned C, it was the basics; then moved to C++ (via MS).
It seems as if their compiler spoiled me.