Hiding members in a C struct

Question

I\'ve been reading about OOP in C but I never liked how you can\'t have private data members like you can in C++. But then it came to my mind that you could create 2 structu

Answer 1

This approach is valid, useful, standard C.

A slightly different approach, used by sockets API, which was defined by BSD Unix, is the style used for struct sockaddr.