#include #include #include #include #include #include // https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/linked-list-set-1-introduction/ // // C program to implement a linked list // struct Node { int data; struct Node* next; }; // Driver's code int main() { struct Node* head = NULL; struct Node* second = NULL; struct Node* third = NULL; // allocate 3 nodes in the heap head = (struct Node*)malloc(sizeof(struct Node)); second = (struct Node*)malloc(sizeof(struct Node)); third = (struct Node*)malloc(sizeof(struct Node)); /* Three blocks have been allocated dynamically. We have pointers to these three blocks as head, second and third head second third | | | | | | +---+-----+ +----+----+ +----+----+ | # | # | | # | # | | # | # | +---+-----+ +----+----+ +----+----+ # represents any random value. Data is random because we haven’t assigned anything yet */ head->data = 1; // assign data in first node head->next = second; // Link first node with // the second node /* data has been assigned to the data part of the first block (block pointed by the head). And next pointer of first block points to second. So they both are linked. head second third | | | | | | +---+---+ +----+----+ +-----+----+ | 1 | o----->| # | # | | # | # | +---+---+ +----+----+ +-----+----+ */ // assign data to second node second->data = 2; // Link second node with the third node second->next = third; /* data has been assigned to the data part of the second block (block pointed by second). And next pointer of the second block points to the third block. So all three blocks are linked. head second third | | | | | | +---+---+ +---+---+ +----+----+ | 1 | o----->| 2 | o-----> | # | # | +---+---+ +---+---+ +----+----+ */ third->data = 3; // assign data to third node third->next = NULL; /* data has been assigned to data part of third block (block pointed by third). And next pointer of the third block is made NULL to indicate that the linked list is terminated here. We have the linked list ready. head | | +---+---+ +---+---+ +----+------+ | 1 | o----->| 2 | o-----> | 3 | NULL | +---+---+ +---+---+ +----+------+ Note that only head is sufficient to represent the whole list. We can traverse the complete list by following next pointers. */ return 0; }