Notes

// A C program to demonstrate linked list based
// implementation of queue
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

// A linked list (LL) node to store a queue entry
struct QNode {
int key;
struct QNode* next;
};

// The queue, front stores the front node of LL and rear
// stores the last node of LL
struct Queue {
struct QNode *front, *rear;
};

// A utility function to create a new linked list node.
struct QNode* newNode(int k)
{
struct QNode* temp
= (struct QNode*)malloc(sizeof(struct QNode));
temp->key = k;
temp->next = NULL;
return temp;
}

// A utility function to create an empty queue
struct Queue* createQueue()
{
struct Queue* q
= (struct Queue*)malloc(sizeof(struct Queue));
q->front = q->rear = NULL;
return q;
}

// The function to add a key k to q
void enQueue(struct Queue* q, int k)
{
// Create a new LL node
struct QNode* temp = newNode(k);

// If queue is empty, then new node is front and rear
// both
if (q->rear == NULL) {
q->front = q->rear = temp;
return;
}

// Add the new node at the end of queue and change rear
q->rear->next = temp;
q->rear = temp;
}

// Function to remove a key from given queue q
void deQueue(struct Queue* q)
{
// If queue is empty, return NULL.
if (q->front == NULL)
return;

// Store previous front and move front one node ahead
struct QNode* temp = q->front;

q->front = q->front->next;

// If front becomes NULL, then change rear also as NULL
if (q->front == NULL)
q->rear = NULL;

free(temp);
}

// Driver code
int main()
{
struct Queue* q = createQueue();
enQueue(q, 10);
enQueue(q, 20);
deQueue(q);
deQueue(q);
enQueue(q, 30);
enQueue(q, 40);
enQueue(q, 50);
deQueue(q);
printf("Queue Front : %d n", ((q->front != NULL) ? (q->front)->key : -1));
printf("Queue Rear : %d", ((q->rear != NULL) ? (q->rear)->key : -1));
return 0;
}