mkirchner/linked-list-good-taste resource

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An educational repository explaining Linus Torvalds' 'good taste' linked list example, walking through pointer-to-pointer (indirect addressing) techniques in C for elegant list removal and insertion. It includes runnable code comparing the textbook special-case version with the elegant branch-free version.

Use cases

• learn pointer-to-pointer linked list manipulation
• understand Linus Torvalds' good taste coding example
• teach students how to eliminate special cases in C code
• study elegant singly linked list removal and insertion
• improve my C pointer skills

When to choose

• you want a detailed, step-by-step explanation of the indirect pointer technique
• you are teaching or learning C data structures and idiomatic pointer usage
• you want runnable code illustrating the famous TED talk example

When to avoid

• you need a production-ready linked list library for real projects
• you want general-purpose data structures beyond this one example
• you are not comfortable with C pointers, as the material assumes some familiarity

Facets

learning-resource · maturity stable

developer-tools documentation education programming-languages tutorials cpp cross-platform linked-list pointers c code-style torvalds indirect-pointers cs-education algorithms

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