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Name: Anonymous 2010-05-24 23:11

Hi /prog/. I'm learning C, and wrote a program that takes a bunch of numbers and sorts them using a binary tree. I know it's not an efficient way to sort, I'm just learning binary trees. Could you look over it real quick and just give me some comments, like if there was something you would have done differently or something that's just stupid. Thanks a lot.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

struct node_ {
        int value;
        struct node_ *left, *right;
};

typedef struct node_ node;

node *insert(node *parent, int newval)
{
        if (!parent) {
                node *n = malloc(sizeof(node));
                n->value = newval;
                return n;
        }
        else if (newval == parent->value)
                return parent;
        else if (newval < parent->value) {
                parent->left = insert(parent->left, newval);
                return parent;
        }
        else {
                parent->right = insert(parent->right, newval);
                return parent;
        }
}

void print(node *top)
{
        if (!top)
                return;

        print(top->left);
        printf("%d ", top->value);
        print(top->right);
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        puts("enter values, 0 to stop");
       
        int next;
        scanf("%d", &next);
       
        node *root = 0;
       
        while (next) {
                root = insert(root, next);
                scanf("%d", &next);
        }

        print(root);
        puts("");

        return 0;
}

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-25 20:51

>>28
the typedef makes the code shorter, and is good if the tree is intended to be an opaque type only used through an api, which is the right way to do something like this. sizeof(expr) just gets turned into sizeof(typeof(expr)) anyway. scanf is used safely here (bad input can't cause anything worse than bad output). good point about checking malloc, tho.

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