Dark corners of C/C++: The typedef keyword doesn’t need to be the first word on the line

Raymond Chen April 24, 2013 Apr 24, 2013 04/24/13

Here are some strange but legal declarations in C/C++: int typedef a; short unsigned typedef b; By convention, the typedef keyword comes at the beginning of the line, but this is not actually required by the language. The above declarations are equivalent to typedef int a; typedef short unsigned b; The C language (but not C++) also ...