Discussion

Anyone of the followings can be used to declare a node for a singly linked list. If we use the first declaration, “struct node * nodePtr;” would be used to declare pointer to a node. If we use the second declaration, “NODEPTR nodePtr;” can be used to declare pointer to a node.

/* First declaration */
struct node {
int data;
struct node * nextPtr;
};
 
/* Second declaration */
typedef struct node{
int data;
NODEPTR nextPtr;
} * NODEPTR;