Thread: Malloc question

ypedef struct lnode {
int data;
struct lnode *next;
} listnode_t;


ok my question about this struct is what is the point of the "listnode_t;" at the end of the struct

And for the second part of my question

if given this program

void initInode(Inode* const IN);

and told to make it so it makes the first datapoint and the first pointer point to null how would I do it.

The point of a typedef is to give a new name to a type. So the type that used to be called struct lnode is now called listnode_t.

Normally to change the values of a variable you use =, with the variable on the left and the value you want to change it to on the right. To access the elements of a struct, you use name_of_struct.name_of_member, like IN.data.

Originally Posted by matsp

assuming "typdef" is just missing the 't', listnode_t is a synonym of struct lnode. Both can be used interchangably (but it may confuse the reader if you actually DO use both in the same program).

What do YOU think should be in initNode - by answering that, you will show what you know and what you don't know, and then we can help you gain further understanding - it would make no sense to explain what you already know, and we may well do that if you don't help us understand where you are at on the learning-curve.

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Mats

LS->mTop = NULL;

I thought this would be the only line you needed but it keeps telling me left operand has incompadible type int.

Originally Posted by matsp

What is LS and mTop - they do not occur in your original post, so I have no idea what they are, or if they are integer or something else.

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Mats

Really sorry i was looking at the wrong post when i typed that, I ment to say this


IN -> data =0 ;
IN->next = NULL;