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From: Matthijs Melchior <mmelchior@xs4all.nl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ordered Sorted List
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 12:03:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dm9fdj$esk$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1131.62.1.12.53.1133000719.squirrel@webmail.wired-net.gr>

Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote:
> Hi ,all.Can someone please explain this source code with an example???
.....
> void slistInsert(slist *sp,int t)
> {
>         ListNode *n=(ListNode *)malloc(sizeof(ListNode));
>         if(n == NULL)
>         {
>                 printf("Out of memory\n");
>                 exit(1);
>         }
>         n->data = t;
>         while(*sp!=NULL && (*sp)->data < t)
>         {
>         	sp = &((*sp)->next);   // Why we do this here,i miss this point

This is done to move to the next item in the list.
The expression is complicated because 'sp' is a pointer to a pointer to
a structure.

>         }
>         n->next = *sp;
>         *sp = n;
> 
> }
> 
.....

-- 
Matthijs Melchior.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-26 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-26 10:25 Ordered Sorted List Nanakos Chrysostomos
2005-11-26 11:03 ` Matthijs Melchior [this message]
2005-11-26 12:15 ` Richard Knutsson

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