What exactly is the FILE keyword in C?

Question

I\'ve started learning some C as a hobby and have blindly used FILE as a declaration for file pointers for quite some time, and I\'ve been wondering. Is this a keyword or sp

Answer 1

It's a special data type. It contains a file handle as well as various flags used internally by the various stdio calls. You'll never need to actually know what's in it, just that it's a data type that you can pass around.

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdio/FILE/

However if you're interested, here's what it looks like:

http://en.allexperts.com/q/C-1587/2008/5/FILE-Structure.htm