C structs don't define types?

Question

I\'ve just started learning C with a professional Java background and some (if no too much) C++ knowledge, and I was astonished that this doesn\'t work in C:

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Answer 1

As far as I know, it shouldn't work without a typedef in C99 either (as this is simply the way C works), but it does work in C++ as a struct in C++ is just a class with all members public by default.