Comments on: Inside structure declaration of variable of same type is not allowed https://www.emblogic.com/blog/10/inside-structure-declaration-of-variable-of-same-type-is-not-allowed/ Embedded System and ARM Training Mon, 07 Oct 2013 04:00:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 By: Ankit.e1 https://www.emblogic.com/blog/10/inside-structure-declaration-of-variable-of-same-type-is-not-allowed/#comment-65 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:37:41 +0000 http://emblogic.org/blog/?p=227#comment-65 See it this way.. When we declare a pointer it tells the compiler to allocate space for the pointer, which is of structure type in your case it’s self referential.

But if you take a variable same as the structure it will have an endless chain. Let The struct that you have declared be allocated memory. Then that space will be having a pointer and a variable of the same struct type be it x. But x must also be having a pointer and a stuct variable of its type, thus it will create an endless chain…. Hence tis type of declaration is only imaginary :)

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