Static allocation of opaque data types

Question

Very often malloc() is absolutely not allowed when programming for embedded systems. Most of the time I\'m pretty able to deal with this, but one thing irritates me: it keep

Answer 1

It is simple, simply put the structs in a privateTypes.h header file. It will not be opaque anymore, still, it will be private to the programmer, since it is inside a private file.

An example here: Hiding members in a C struct