Foward declaration, that is. You can vaguely compare it to function prototypes. On 1 June 2012 15:00, Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at> wrote:
Hi!
On Don, 2012-05-31 at 01:37 +0800, harryxiyou wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Gaurav Jain <gjainroorkee@gmail.com> wrote: [...]
Those are forward declarations as they are being used in defining struct bus_attribute. It's nothing special about GNU-C. That's the case for ANSI-C too. Pretty standard.
These actually exists since K&R times.
Hmmm.., that is to say, they may be used before definitions in this file or defined in other files like 'struct iommu_ops;' field (Actually, i can
Yes, that's the only reason. And you can't use it if you need the actual size of that struct because the compiler doesn't know it (yet). The main usage scenario is if you need a pointer to it.
not find this field's definition in this file). However, if it has been defined in other header files, we need not declare here, right?
If you #include that other file, yes. But it is not trivial in very large projects like the Linux kernel to keep somewhat logical and clean and circular-free -h files. And you also do not really want a separate .h file for each struct.
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