How to implement a linked list in C?

Question

I am creating a linked list as in the previous question I asked. I have found that the best way to develop the linked list is to have the head and tail in another structure.

Answer 1

Arguably you want your list data structure to be external to the data that it stores.

Say you have:

struct Whatever
{
   int x_;
}

Then your list structure would look like this:

struct Whatever_Node
{
   Whatever_Node* next_
   Whatever* data_
}

Ryan Oberoi commented similarly, but w/o example.