Doc on error messages

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Feb 26, 2001, Thomas Garsiot <garsiot@st2e.com> wrote:

> I have a "dereferencing pointer to incomplete type" error, and I have no
> idea of what an incomplete type is.

An incomplete type is one that has been declared but not defined.  For
example, a forward-declared struct is an incomplete type before it is
actually given a definition.

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