What is self-referencing structure in C?

Question

struct LinkedList  
{  
    int data;
    struct LinkedList *next;
};

In the code, within the definition of struct LinkedList there is

Answer 1

A self-referential pointer which points to the address of whatever it is a part of. So for example,

typedef struct node {     
   char data[30]; 
   struct node *this; 
   struct node *next; 
} Node; 

*this is a self-referential pointer if it is assigned to whatever is applied to.

,and

Clearly a Cell cannot contain another cell as it becomes a never-ending recursion.

However a Cell CAN contain a pointer to another cell.

Refer this post as well.