Write a C function to reverse a given Doubly Linked List

See below diagrams for example.

     (a) Original Doubly Linked List  

Reverse a Doubly Linked List

(b) Reversed Doubly Linked List  

Reverse a Doubly Linked List

Here is a simple method for reversing a Doubly Linked List. All we need to do is swap prev and next pointers for all nodes, change prev of the head (or start) and change the head pointer in the end.\

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Java programming:

// Java program to reverse a doubly linked list
 
class LinkedList {
 
    static Node head;
 
    static class Node {
 
        int data;
        Node next, prev;
 
        Node(int d) {
            data = d;
            next = prev = null;
        }
    }
 
    /* Function to reverse a Doubly Linked List */
    void reverse() {
        Node temp = null;
        Node current = head;
 
        /* swap next and prev for all nodes of 
         doubly linked list */
        while (current != null) {
            temp = current.prev;
            current.prev = current.next;
            current.next = temp;
            current = current.prev;
        }
 
        /* Before changing head, check for the cases like empty 
         list and list with only one node */
        if (temp != null) {
            head = temp.prev;
        }
    }
 
    /* UTILITY FUNCTIONS */
    /* Function to insert a node at the beginging of the Doubly Linked List */
    void push(int new_data) {
        /* allocate node */
        Node new_node = new Node(new_data);
 
        /* since we are adding at the begining, 
         prev is always NULL */
        new_node.prev = null;
 
        /* link the old list off the new node */
        new_node.next = head;
 
        /* change prev of head node to new node */
        if (head != null) {
            head.prev = new_node;
        }
 
        /* move the head to point to the new node */
        head = new_node;
    }
 
    /* Function to print nodes in a given doubly linked list 
     This function is same as printList() of singly linked lsit */
    void printList(Node node) {
        while (node != null) {
            System.out.print(node.data + " ");
            node = node.next;
        }
    }
 
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        LinkedList list = new LinkedList();
 
        /* Let us create a sorted linked list to test the functions
         Created linked list will be 10->8->4->2 */
        list.push(2);
        list.push(4);
        list.push(8);
        list.push(10);
 
        System.out.println("Original linked list ");
        list.printList(head);
 
        list.reverse();
        System.out.println("");
        System.out.println("The reversed Linked List is ");
        list.printList(head);
    }
}
 

Time Complexity: O(n)

We can also swap data instead of pointers to reverse the Doubly Linked List. Method used for reversing array can be used to swap data. Swapping data can be costly compared to pointers if size of data item(s) is more.

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