Why use different a different tag and typedef for a struct?

Question

In C code, I\'ve seen the following:

typedef struct SomeStructTag {
    // struct members
} SomeStruct;

I\'m not clear on why this is any d

Answer 1

The point is that SomeStruct will then be a proper type name. So you don't have to type

struct SomeStructTag my_struct;

In declarations:

SomeStruct my_struct;

Other than that, IMHO the _t appended to a name stands for type, not tag.