error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before

Question

Yes, I know this question has been asked numerous times previously, however I am racking my brain trying to figure out what is causing the error as I cannot identify where the u

Answer 1

This time it's not a missing semicolon, but a completely different language. The code you're trying to compile is in C++, not C. That's why you get syntax errors from a C compiler.

To fix this (and compile the code as C++), rename the file from .c to .cpp:

mv list.c list.cpp

And use g++ to compile it, not gcc:

g++ -o list list.cpp