From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Garsiot <garsiot@st2e.com>
Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Doc on error messages
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 13:02:00 -0000
Message-id: <org0h12m5h.fsf@guarana.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>
References: <3A9A3BB0.FCA21251@st2e.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-02/msg00266.html

On Feb 26, 2001, Thomas Garsiot <garsiot@st2e.com> wrote:

> I have a "dereferencing pointer to incomplete type" error, and I have no
> idea of what an incomplete type is.

An incomplete type is one that has been declared but not defined.  For
example, a forward-declared struct is an incomplete type before it is
actually given a definition.

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