Introduction to Circular linked list

Circular Linked Lists

Circular linked lists are just like singly linked lists but all of its nodes are connected to form a circle.

The last node of the linked list will point to the head/first node of the linked list.

Introduction to Circular Linked Lists

Circular linked list Advantages

The circular linked list is also two types.

  • Singly linked list
  • Doubly linked list

In a singly circular linked list, the address of the last node’s next pointer rather than being NULL is pointed towards the address of the head node.

Similarly, in a doubly linked list, in addition to the address of the last node’s next pointer being the address of head node. The previous pointer of the head node is provided to the address of the last node.

Advantages

  • Any node can be starting point and we can still traverse the whole list
  • It can also deem to be useful for implementation as queues as rather than maintaining the Front and Rear, we can use a circular linked list and just maintain the pointer to the first inserted node and it can simply be the next node to the last node.
  • Circular linked lists are commonly used in OS’es for the task that requires repeatedly to be executed by OS.

Disadvantages

  • Doubly Linked List is faster in getting previous node information due to previous pointer.
  • Doubly Linked List can traverse in both forward and backward direction.
  • Finding end of list and loop control is harder (no NULL  to mark beginning and end).
  • The entire list can be traversed starting from any node (traverse means visit every node just once).

So, when we want to traverse the node in a circular linked list so we will traverse in a singly circular linked list so, it is just like the singly linked list where tail nodes hold the address of head node so traversal can be done circularly in only one direction.

And the Traversal in a doubly linked list can be done circularly in both directions.

Creation of Circular Linked Lists

Defining struct for Circular Linked List (Singly)

Defining struct for Circular Linked List (Doubly)

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