Defining elastic/flexible structure in C

Question

I have a task to do and the content of the task is:

Please suggest a definition of linked list, which will keep the person\'s name and age in a flexible stru

Answer 1

my guess: a flexible struct would be one that could handle any age and any name.

A unsigned int field would handle any age (within reason).

A char * field would handle any name.

The struct itself would be:

struct nameAge { unsigned int age;  char * pName; };  

an instance of the struct would be:

struct nameAge myNameAge;

Setting the age field would be:

myNameAge.age = ageValue;

Setting the name field would be:

myNameAge.name = malloc( numCharactersInName+1 );
strcpy( myNameAge.name, nameString );

How the code obtained the ageValue for age and/or the characters for NameString is up to the programmer to decide/implement.