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Practice: Get Element at Position

Explore how to implement a generic getElementAtPosition function to retrieve data from generic linked lists using void pointers. Understand the challenges of non-contiguous memory in linked lists, pointer safety, and design decisions for mutable data handling.

Introduction

One of the challenging aspects of implementing a generic linked list is to write a proper allocGenericNode function, which works correctly regardless of the data type.

The other aspect is to figure out how to abstract the concrete handling of data types to keep the linked list functions generic. Our current approach is to pass function pointers as arguments to customize the code behavior for each data type. ...