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    <p>You're being passed a pointer to a pointer. You want to alter the pointer that is being pointed to, not the pointer to a pointer itself. Does that make sense?</p> <pre><code>if(lst == NULL) </code></pre> <p>Here you're checking to see if you were passed a NULL pointer. Good practice for error checking, but not for what you were doing right there. If <code>lst</code> is NULL, then you don't even have a pointer to a pointer, can't do anything, and should return a nonzero error code without doing anything else.</p> <p>Once you're sure your pointer is not NULL, <em>then</em> you look at the pointer it's pointing to (<code>*lst</code>). The pointed-to pointer is the pointer to the first list item. If <em>that</em> pointer is NULL, <em>then</em> you change it to the new item's pointer. Basically, where you use <code>lst</code> you should be using <code>*lst</code> or <code>(*lst)</code>. (REMEMBER: the <code>*</code> operator runs <em>after</em> the <code>-&gt;</code> operator! So to get a field in the object pointed to by the pointer that is pointed to by <code>lst</code> [pant, pant], you use <code>(*lst)-&gt;whatever</code>.)</p> <p>P.S. This kind of pointer work is <em>critical</em> to learn to be a good programmer, especially with C.</p> <p>P.P.S. The other thing you got wrong is that instead of</p> <pre><code>insert_intlist(lst, i); </code></pre> <p>you're supposed to call it like</p> <pre><code>insert_intlist(&amp;lst, i); </code></pre> <p>... and, for brownie points, check the return code for errors.</p>
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    1. COCan someone please explain to me why &lst I know & is the address of...but seriously this class is just really difficult, this was our FIRST ASSIGNMENT and I have had to learn C basically on my own.
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    2. CO`&lst` because what you are passing is the pointer to a pointer to the list while `lst` is only a pointer to a list. Note that "pointer to" is synonymous with "address of".
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    3. COCan anyone recommend a good book, this stuff is really difficult I cant believe I am getting this far....
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