The dot notation used to access structure member is cumulative so
to access a structure within a structure you would use something
like "s1.s2.v" where s2 is the structure within s1 and v is the
element you are accessing.  In a sense, s2.v is an element in s1.

The reason this isn't blindingly obvious to you is you have an error
in the way you are defining the second structure.  You need to give
the structure of type struct1 a name in struct2.  It should be:

struct struct2
{
  struct struct1 syours;
  int a;
  int b;

And you access your element as smine.syours.a.

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You need to give this struct a name.

struct struct1 x;

int i;

smine.x.a = 1;
i = smine.x.a;

If you added in a 'next_struct(x)' statement to both structs, you would
be on your way to creating an orthogonal linked list! (View that as a
literal BTW).

If you wanted to access and place info into int a of struct2, try this:

struct2.struct1.a = 5;

Printing it out would be the same way:

printf("Int value is %4d\n", struct2.struct1.a);

ANother thing you can do to save whitespace and make your code a bit
more readable is to do this from within the function(s) you are
accessing the structs from:

struct struct2 fubar;

fubar = struct2.struct1;

Then when you access the int of struct1, you can use:
fubar.a = 5;

This is based on code that I am using for a current working program that
works quite well.

Joe Cipale

< The opinions expressed are my own and not those of Intel >

if i had two structures defined as follows.
struct struct1
{
int a;
int b;

and
struct struct2
{
struct struct1;
int a;
int b;

if i created a structure as 'struct struct2 smine;' in a program.
how would i then put a value into the int a of the struct1 part of smine,
and, of course, get it out?

obviously there is the name of "struct struct1" within struct struct2
missing..
it should be something like...
struct struct2
{
struct struct1 s1;
int a;
int b;

now the access to all member is...
struct2.s1.a=1;
struct2.s1.b=2;
struct2.a=3;
struct2.b=4;

...

struct2 is a structure tag, not a variable name so this is incorrect.
Given the original post specified 'struct struct2 smine;' you could write:

 smine.s1.a=1;
 smine.s1.b=2;
 smine.a=3;
 smine.b=4;

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