I have created a single linked list. Everything works fine.
I just want to know if I have done anything potentially dangerous in my code. The code snippets I am concern
From pop()
if(head->product_code == code)
{
temp = head;
head = head->next;
free(temp);
// Finished Deleting product
return;
}
In the case of there only being one item, 'head' and 'tail' would be pointing to the same node. However, if you pop this one item, 'head' will be adjusted but 'tail' will still be pointing to the free'd node. This will leave a bad pointer, which may cause your computer to explode.
Addendum: Similarly, 'new_product' will be dangling if you ever pop the last node that was pushed, and clean_up() will leave the 'tail' pointer dangling as well. Even if the code sample provided will never dereference these after they're free'd, dangling pointers in C code should always be treated as "potentially dangerous".