Author: Armin Rigo <[email protected]>
Branch:
Changeset: r1036:a536488474d4
Date: 2012-11-10 16:24 +0100
http://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/changeset/a536488474d4/
Log: Write explicitly that the "..." in "typedef ... foo_t" is not to
declare say integer types.
diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst
--- a/doc/source/index.rst
+++ b/doc/source/index.rst
@@ -519,7 +519,9 @@
works with "``typedef ... *foo_p;``" which declares the pointer type
``foo_p`` without giving a name to the opaque type itself. Note that
such an opaque struct has no known size, which prevents some operations
- from working (mostly like in C). In some cases you need to say that
+ from working (mostly like in C). *You cannot use this syntax to
+ declare a specific type, like an integer type! It declares opaque
+ types only.* In some cases you need to say that
``foo_t`` is not opaque, but you just don't know any field in it; then
you would use "``typedef struct { ...; } foo_t;``".
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