diff --git a/libavutil/log.h b/libavutil/log.h
index 18d0ddf0a8..0678e1a3b0 100644
--- a/libavutil/log.h
+++ b/libavutil/log.h
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
  * arbitrary struct of which the first field is a pointer to an
  * AVClass struct (e.g. AVCodecContext, AVFormatContext etc.).
  */
-typedef struct {
+typedef struct AVClass {
     /**
      * The name of the class; usually it is the same name as the
      * context structure type to which the AVClass is associated.