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A particular advantage of using the pointer as an opaque type is that the structure itself can change between library versions and you don't need to recompile the callers.

Barmar
– Barmar

2017-10-19 21:54:24 +00:00
Commented Oct 19, 2017 at 21:54
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@Barmar: Indeed, ABI Stability is the huge selling point of C, and it would not be as stable without opaque pointers.

Matthieu M.
– Matthieu M.

2017-10-20 12:06:16 +00:00
Commented Oct 20, 2017 at 12:06

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