Re: [avr-gcc-list] Linked lists.

[E. Weddington]

On 9 Dec 2002 at 16:57, Daniel Williamson wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm implementing a linked list of structures as part of a
> re-configurable state machine.  I can declare a pointer to the
> structures and it works fine. However If I increment the pointer as in
> pointer++; Then I start going off track.  I was rather hoping that
> incrementing the pointer in this way would jump to the next defined
> structure in my list.
> 
> Maybe I've missed something glaringly obvious.

See:

http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/105/

And download the pdf on the page

http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/105/LinkedListProblems.pdf

Barring that, here's a google search:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-
1&q=C+Language+linked+list&btnG=Google+Search

> Anyway does anyone have any thoughts, and also can anyone think of a
> better way to do a state machine. In the past I've used switch and
> case,  and also pointers to functions with each function being a state
> and it setting the next state to call.
> 
> This time I'd like something a little more abstract and configurable
> so that I can change the state machine depending on the mode I'm in.
> 

Also go to 
http://www.embedded.com/
and search for "state machine" for different techniques to building a 
state machine in an embedded system.

Eric
avr-gcc-list at http://avr1.org