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While coding a linked list I came across this confusing concept of 

struct Node *next;
struct Node* next;

If there is a difference in the memory management or in any other way between the two kindly explain it diagrammatically!

unwind
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Oswald Vinny
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    If not, you still need a diagram? – red0ct Jun 30 '16 at 12:12
  • These are the same: during translation the spaces are eventually removed (the declaration becomes a token sequence containing the tokens `struct`, `Node`, `*`, `next` and `;`). You could skip the space entirely since `*` will work as separating tokens (ie `struct Node*next;). – skyking Jun 30 '16 at 12:17
  • haha..obviously no if not I dnt need the diagram.! – Oswald Vinny Jun 30 '16 at 12:20
  • Both are same, though I would recommend you to learn the basics tokens, separators, c semantics and grammar and all basic stuffs before moving on to structures and linked list. – Pankaj Prakash Jun 30 '16 at 12:35

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Those two declarations are equivalent. Both declare next to be of type struct Node *.

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