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C: What is self referential structure and when is it use ?

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C: What is self referential structure and when is it use ?
posted Apr 20, 2016 by Vikram Singh

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A self referential structure is nothing but a structure pointer pointing to itself.
It is used to create data structures like linked lists, stacks, etc. Below is an example of this kind of structure:

struct struct_name
{
int a;
char b;
struct_name * pointer_name;  // This is structure pointer defined inside structure only.
}; 
answer Apr 21, 2016 by Chirag Gangdev
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