Forward Declarations

Device Monitoring Studio Neo requires that each referenced type must be defined before it is used; otherwise, the compile-time error occurs. Sometimes it is impossible or inconvenient to follow this rule. Forward declarations allow you to declare the identifier as a user-defined type, without actually defining it:

struct B;         // forward declaration of B

struct A
{
    B b;          // compiles OK, as B has been declared
};

struct B          // actually define B
{
    // …
};

Syntax:

(struct | union | case_union) name-id ;        

name-id is required in forward declarations.

All forward declarations must be resolved before the end of the source file, otherwise an error occurs. However, it is not an error not to resolve a forward declaration if it has not been referenced.