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     A Microsoft C extension allows you to declare a structure variable
     within another structure without giving it a name. These nested
     structures are called anonymous structures. C++ does not allow
     anonymous structures.
 
     You can access the members of an anonymous structure as if they
     were members in the containing structure. For example:
 
          struct phone
          {
             int  areacode;
             long number;
          };
 
          struct person
          {
             char   name[30];
             char   sex;
             int    age;
             int    weight;
             struct phone;    // Anonymous structure; no name needed
          } Jim;
 
          Jim.number = 1234567;
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