Why am I getting this error: “data definition has no type or storage class”?

Question

#include 
#include 

struct NODE {
    char* name;
    int val;
    struct NODE* next;
};
typedef struct NODE Node;

Node *head, *tail;
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Answer 1

Try putting the malloc and variable declarations in a main function, and delete the cast on malloc. It should look like this:

#include 
#include 

int main(){

    struct NODE
    {
        char* name;
        int val;
        struct NODE* next;
    };

    typedef struct NODE Node;

    Node *head, *tail;
    head = malloc( sizeof(Node) ); //line 21
}