Why the pointer in linked list is of structure type? Since any node points to a memory location is there any specific need in using it's pointer as structure type.Why couldn't we use integer as the pointer type in linked list rather than structure?
The nodes in a linked list need to hold two things:


the node's value 
a (possibly null) pointer to the next node


That makes them structs, so a pointer to a node is a pointer to a struct.