Why should structure names have a typedef?

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Published on 2010-04-09T07:15:04Z Indexed on 2010/04/09 7:23 UTC
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I have seen source codes always having a typedef for a structure and using the same everywhere instead of using the structure name as "struct sname" etc directly?

What is the reason behind this? Are there any advantages in doing this?

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