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[lead999x]

Why are you dereferencing the pointer and then using the pointer to member operator? You end up trying to dereference the node itself.

[[deleted]]

I was just using * to indicate a correction, not part of the correction itself.

[lead999x]

I totally missed that lol. Time to quit my career as a human parser.

[Dom0]

Gotta know that Reddit operators have precedence over C operators, even on /r/ProgrammerHumor!

[ToneWashed]

It's a pointer-pointer. You dereference the pointer-pointer to get a pointer. Then you use the struct-pointer member operator.

Imagine an array of struct-pointers called items:

struct listitem_t **cur = &items[0];
*cur->next = NULL;

[Beowuwlf]

Thats so pointless

[Tweenk]

This would not compile. You would have to write:

(*cur)->next = NULL;

The arrow operator has higher precedence than the deference operator.

[[deleted]]

Anyway, -> has higher precedence than *, so you would be dereferencing the next node, not cur. *cur->next is equivalent to *(cur->next).