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Not really. If you only want to manipulate the list, you only need a direct pointer to the nested node but don't need to know the 'outer type'. Only if the fun
by flohofwoe 2y ago
Not really. If you only want to manipulate the list, you only need a direct pointer to the nested node but don't need to know the 'outer type'.
Only if the function takes a pointer to the outer type it needs to know how to get the pointer to the embedded node struct from the item pointer.
...I guess it makes a lot more sense if you ever wrote code for AmigaOS ;)