A lesser-known quirk about typedef is that syntactically, it is treated like any other storage-class specifier (static, extern, register, auto). Since the order

A lesser-known quirk about typedef is that syntactically, it is treated like any other storage-class specifier (static, extern, register, auto). Since the ordering of storage-class specifiers is insignificant to the rest of the specifiers, it means that the following statements have the same effect: typedef int myint; int typedef myint; The only difference here compared to a normal declaration is that the name "myint" defines a type and not an "object" as per the standard.