What's the difference?(linked list)
 

hi there.....i wonder what's the difference with these 2 linked list...

1.

struct node

{

        int wage;

        int hours_worked;

        int salary;

        int hoursW; 

        char* name;

        struct node *link;

};

2.

struct listNode 

{                        

   char data;        

   struct listNode *nextPtr; 

}; 

typedef struct listNode ListNode; /* synonym for struct listNode */

typedef ListNode *ListNodePtr; /* synonym for ListNode* */

and this....

temp->name=(char*)malloc(strlen(tempString)+1);

//this is based on the linked list example 1(above)

//why this doesnt have sizeof? =)

i hope someone will answer me.........pls explain in simple english so that i can understand well...im not an American...=) thank a lot..peace!!

Re: What's the difference?(linked list)
 

>>//why this doesnt have sizeof? =)temp->name=(char*)malloc(strlen(tempString)+1);
>>//this is based on the linked list example 1(above)
>>//why this doesnt have sizeof? =)

It doesn't use sizeof(tempString) probably sizeof(any pointer here) is only 4 on 32-bit machines while the length of the string can be much much more than that. And the size of a character array may or may not be the same as the length of the string in the array.

char str[255] = "Hello";

in the above, sizeof(str) is 255, but strlen(str) is only 5.