Enforce strong type checking in C (type strictness for typedefs)

Question

Is there a way to enforce explicit cast for typedefs of the same type? I\'ve to deal with utf8 and sometimes I get confused with the indices for the character count and the

Answer 1

You could do something like:

typedef struct {
    unsigned int c_idx;
} char_idx;

typedef struct {
    unsigned int b_idx;
} byte_idx;

Then you would see when you are using each:

char_idx a;
byte_idx b;

b.b_idx = a.c_idx;  

Now it is more clear that they are different types but would still compile.