mutual reference in structures

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <2346 at wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu> jym at wheaties.ai.mit.edu (Jym Dyer) writes:
-VAX C accepts this (which seems wrong to me):
-	typedef struct
-	{
-	  struct NODE_T *  flink_p;
-	  struct NODE_T *  blink_p;
-	  char  data[512];
-	}  NODE_T;

That's valid, but "struct NODE_T" is still an incomplete type afterwards.
The final NODE_T is the type name being defined, not a structure tag.