Struct in struct

[bradleyc]

I have seen this is mainly linked lists ... something like

struct NodeType
{
int current
NodeType *next
}

So you are obviously able to use the struct within itself?

[teknomage1]

Well, in this case you're just typing a pointer the struct contains as another of this struct, so the struct doesn't recursively hold instances of itself, just a memory address.

[Valmont]

The compiler needs to be able to determine the size of an object if you create one. So you can't instantiate an object within a class the way you described. However, in your code you are creating a pointer to a class object. In that case you don't need to know the size of the actual object in advance. So this code is valid.