[Dev-C++] Allocation and deallocation

[Jan M. <jan...@vo...>]

Hello,

I have got two more things about the allocation of pointer types.

I have structure like:

struct list
{
  int id;
char *name;
  struct list *next;
};

struct list *element;

Should now   I do something like:

element = malloc(sizeof(struct(list element));
element->name = malloc(sizeof(strlen("some string here")));
element->next = malloc(sizeof(struct list((;

...main program here...

free(element->next);
free(element->name);

?

And the second thing, more about the alghoritgm of connected list or how is
it     called.
The structure above defines an element of such a list. Where there is NULL
in element->next it means it is the last element in the list. And I have
another structure defined like:

typedef struct Queue{
 struct bet_list *front;
}Queue;
Queue *q;

I store an adress to the first element in the list in q.
Is this correct? Or is there some more commone and easier way?

Thank you again

Jan Mura
jan...@vo...