Creating a Linked list with Structs - C++ - class

Question

I was writing a program which could read an input file and store the read data in nodes linked by a "link list". However, I was getting a few errors:
In constructor List::List(), no match for 'operator =' in *((List*)this)->List::list[0] = 0
In constructor Polynomial::Polynomial(): no match for 'operator =' in *((Polynomial*)this)->Polynomial::poly = (operator new(400u), (<statement>), ...)
I have a feeling where I do: I try to access a certain node through an array is where I go wrong, however, I can't figure it out much.
Here is the code:
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;
enum result{success, failure};
struct Node
{
double coefficient;
int power;
Node();
Node(double coef, int pwr);
};
struct List
{
Node *list[100];
//Default constructor
List();
};
Node::Node()
{
coefficient = 0;
power = 0;
}
List::List()
{
*list[0] = NULL;
}
Node::Node(double coef, int pwr)
{
coefficient = coef;
power = pwr;
}
class Polynomial
{
public:
Polynomial();
result multiply(Polynomial &p, Polynomial &q);
result add(Polynomial p, Polynomial &q);
void initialize(ifstream &file);
void simplify(Polynomial &var);
void print_poly();
~Polynomial();
private:
List *poly; //Store the pointer links in an array
Node first_node;
int val;
};
Polynomial::Polynomial()
{
*poly = new List();
}
Polynomial::void initialize(ifstream &file)
{
int y[20];
double x[20];
int i = 0, j = 0;
//Read from the file
file >> x[j];
file >> y[j];
first_node(x[j], y[j++]); //Create the first node with coef, and pwr
*poly->list[i] = &first_node; //Link to the fist node
//Creat a linked list
while(y[j] != 0)
{
file >> x[j];
file >> y[j];
*poly->list[++i] = new Node(x[j], y[j++]);
}
val = i+1; //Keeps track of the number of nodes
}
Polynomail::result multiply(Polynomial &p, Polynomial &q)
{
int i, j, k = 0;
for(i = 0; i < p.val; i++)
{
for(j = 0; j < q.val; j++)
{
*poly->list[k] = new Node(0, 0);
*poly->list[k].coefficient = (p.poly->list[i].coefficient)*(q.poly->list[j].coefficient);
*poly->list[k++].power = (p.poly->list[i].power)+(q.poly->list[j].power);
}
}
val = k+1; //Store the nunber of nodes
return success;
}
Polynomial::void simplify(Polynomial &var)
{
int i, j, k = 0;
//Create a copy of the polynomial
for(j = 0; j < var.val; j++)
{
*poly->list[j] = new Node(0, 0);
*poly->list[j].coefficient = var.poly->list[j].coefficient;
*poly->list[j].power = var.poly->list[j].power;
}
//Iterate through the nodes to find entries which have the same power and add them, otherwise do nothing
for(k = 0; k < var.val; k++)
{
for(i = k; i < var.val;)
{
if(*poly->list[k].power == var.poly->list[++i].power)
{
if(*poly->list.power[0] == 0)
{
NULL;
}
else
{
*poly->list[k].coefficient = *poly->list[k].coefficient + var.poly->list[i].ceofficient;
var.poly->list[i] = Node(0, 0);
}
}
}
}
}
Polynomial::void print_pol()
{
int i = 0;
for(i = 0; i < temp.val; i++)
{
cout << "Coefficient: " << temp.poly->list[i].coefficient << ", and " << "Power: " << temp.poly->list[i].power << endl;
}
}

Answer 1

The problem is a wrong dereference. Line 34 should probably be
list[0] = NULL; // remove the *
You try to assign the value NULL to a variable of the type Node, but you probably mean a pointer to Node.
The very same is true in line 63.
In addition, line 66 sould probably b:
void Polynomial::initialize(ifstream &file) // start with return type