commitscreaming

main.c

@@ -56,11 +56,19 @@ PlayerNode* ListPlayers(Pokedex* pokedex) {
 }
 
 // Create new pokemon node, return pointer to it
+/*
+  initializes a pointer of type PokemonNode* to NULL,
+  then assigns it the memory allocated by malloc.
+  checks if the memory was successfully allocated before proceeding
+  to initialize the struct's fields with the parameters passed in
+  (name, type, ability) using the strcpy function.
+  Sets the next field to NULL and returns the newly created struct.
+*/
 PokemonNode* NewPokemonNode(char name[20], char type[20], char ability[30]) {
-  PokemonNode* newPoke = NULL;
-  newPoke = malloc(sizeof(PokemonNode));
+  PokemonNode* newPoke = NULL;              // Pointer initalised
+  newPoke = malloc(sizeof(PokemonNode));    // Creation of dynamically allocated memory
   if (newPoke != NULL) {
-    strcpy(newPoke->name, name);
+    strcpy(newPoke->name, name);    // 
     strcpy(newPoke->type, type);
     strcpy(newPoke->ability, ability);
     newPoke->next = NULL;