Re: advantage of using typedefs

On 2006-01-28, junky_fellow@xxxxxxxxxxx <junky_fellow@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was looking at the source code of linux or open BSD. What I found
> that lots of typedefs
> were used. For example, consider the offset in a file. It was declared
> as
> off_t offset;
> and off_t is typedefed as
> typedef long off_t;

On your system. On my system it's long long.

>
> I wanted to know what advantage do we get by typedefs ? Why we did not
> declare
> offset simply as
> long off_t;
>
> Similar is the case with size of file and so on.....
>
> Does any one has any clue of why do we use typedefs in such cases ?
>
> Thanx for any help advance ....
>
.

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