Struct as member of itself?

[shadypalm88]

I'm trying to get a pointer to a (typedef'd) struct inside itself.  I know that the addrinfo struct does it (albeit not typedef'd), but I'm having trouble doing the same.

typedef struct _ofdpfolder {
    ucstr_t* name;
    unsigned long numFiles;
    unsigned long numFolders;
    ofdpfile_t* files;
    ofdpfolder_t* folders; // line 21
} ofdpfolder_t;

This is the code I'm trying to use, but gcc is telling me:

files.h:21: error: parse error before "ofdpfolder_t"

Any ideas on how I can get this to work properly?

[Arta]

change that line to:

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struct ofdpfolder_t* folders; // line 21


[shadypalm88]

Well, that didn't work, but I think I know what you meant.  Although I thought I had the line as

struct _ofdpfolder* folders; // line 21

before, and it didn't work, that's how it reads now, and it works fine.  Thanks.

[Arta]

hmm, yes, that'd be it. I never typedef my structs so I didn't notice