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Most C implementations of linked list are untyped. That is, their data
carriers are typically void *. This is error prone since your compiler
will not be able to help you correct your mistakes.
tllist addresses this by using pre-processor macros to implement
dynamic types, where the data carrier is typed to whatever you want;
both primitive data types are supported as well as aggregated ones
such as structs, enums and unions.
Being a double-linked list, most operations are constant in time
(including pushing and popping both to/from front and back).
The memory overhead is fairly small; each item carries, besides its
data, a prev and next pointer (i.e. a constant 16 byte overhead per item
on 64-bit architectures).
The list itself has two head and tail pointers, plus a length variable
(typically 8 bytes on 64-bit architectures) to make list length lookup
constant in time.
Thus, assuming 64-bit pointers (and a 64-bit size_t type), the total
overhead is 3*8 + n*2*8 bytes.
tllist is a needed dependency for fcft,foot,fuzzel,fnott,wbg
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