Tower Of Hanoi Code DSP Lab Problem

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Iterative Method (Stack is implemented here ,using Linked List )

Tower of Hanoi is a mathematical puzzle. It consists of three poles and a number of disks of different sizes which can slide onto any poles.

The puzzle starts with the disk in a neat stack in ascending order of size in one pole, the smallest at the top thus making a conical shape.

 The objective of the puzzle is to move all the disks from one pole (say ‘source pole’) to another pole (say ‘destination pole’) with the help of third pole (say auxiliary pole).

The puzzle has the following two rules:
      1. You can’t place a larger disk onto smaller disk
      2. Only one disk can be moved at a time

For n disks, total 2ⁿ – 1 moves are required. 

Iterative Algorithm:

1. Calculate the total number of moves required i.e. "pow(2, n) - 1" here

    n is number of disks.

 2. If number of disks (i.e. n) is even then interchange destination 
   pole and auxiliary pole.
3. for i = 1 to total number of moves:
     if i%3 == 1:
    legal movement of top disk between source pole and 
        destination pole
     if i%3 == 2:
    legal movement top disk between source pole and 
        auxiliary pole    
     if i%3 == 0:
        legal movement top disk between auxiliary pole 
        and destination pole 

Code is below :

// C Program for Iterative Tower of Hanoi
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <limits.h>

// A structure to represent a stack
struct Stack
{
   unsigned capacity;
   int top;
   int *array;
};

void moveDisk(char , char , int );
// function to create a stack of given capacity.
struct Stack* createStack(unsigned capacity)
{
    struct Stack* stack =
        (struct Stack*) malloc(sizeof(struct Stack));
    stack -> capacity = capacity;
    stack -> top = -1;
    stack -> array =
        (int*) malloc(stack -> capacity * sizeof(int));
    return stack;
}

// Stack is full when top is equal to the last index
int isFull(struct Stack* stack)
{
   return (stack->top == stack->capacity - 1);
}

// Stack is empty when top is equal to -1
int isEmpty(struct Stack* stack)
{
   return (stack->top == -1);
}

// Function to add an item to stack.  It increases
// top by 1
void push(struct Stack *stack, int item)
{
    if (isFull(stack))
        return;
    stack -> array[++stack -> top] = item;
}

// Function to remove an item from stack.  It
// decreases top by 1
int pop(struct Stack* stack)
{
    if (isEmpty(stack))
        return INT_MIN;
    return stack -> array[stack -> top--];
}

// Function to implement legal movement between
// two poles
void moveDisksBetweenTwoPoles(struct Stack *src,
            struct Stack *dest, char s, char d)
{
    int pole1TopDisk = pop(src);
    int pole2TopDisk = pop(dest);

    // When pole 1 is empty
    if (pole1TopDisk == INT_MIN)
    {
        push(src, pole2TopDisk);
        moveDisk(d, s, pole2TopDisk);
    }

    // When pole2 pole is empty
    else if (pole2TopDisk == INT_MIN)
    {
        push(dest, pole1TopDisk);
        moveDisk(s, d, pole1TopDisk);
    }

    // When top disk of pole1 > top disk of pole2
    else if (pole1TopDisk > pole2TopDisk)
    {
        push(src, pole1TopDisk);
        push(src, pole2TopDisk);
        moveDisk(d, s, pole2TopDisk);
    }

    // When top disk of pole1 < top disk of pole2
    else
    {
        push(dest, pole2TopDisk);
        push(dest, pole1TopDisk);
        moveDisk(s, d, pole1TopDisk);
    }
}

//Function to show the movement of disks
void moveDisk(char fromPeg, char toPeg, int disk)
{
    printf("Move the disk %d from \'%c\' to \'%c\'\n",
           disk, fromPeg, toPeg);
}

//Function to implement TOH puzzle
void tohIterative(int num_of_disks, struct Stack
             *src, struct Stack *aux,
             struct Stack *dest)
{
    int i, total_num_of_moves;
    char s = 'S', d = 'D', a = 'A';

    //If number of disks is even, then interchange
    //destination pole and auxiliary pole
    if (num_of_disks % 2 == 0)
    {
        char temp = d;
        d = a;
        a  = temp;
    }
    total_num_of_moves = pow(2, num_of_disks) - 1;

    //Larger disks will be pushed first
    for (i = num_of_disks; i >= 1; i--)
        push(src, i);

    for (i = 1; i <= total_num_of_moves; i++)
    {
        if (i % 3 == 1)
          moveDisksBetweenTwoPoles(src, dest, s, d);

        else if (i % 3 == 2)
          moveDisksBetweenTwoPoles(src, aux, s, a);

        else if (i % 3 == 0)
          moveDisksBetweenTwoPoles(aux, dest, a, d);
    }
}

// Driver Program
int main()
{
    // Input: number of disks
    unsigned num_of_disks = 8;

    struct Stack *src, *dest, *aux;

    // Create three stacks of size 'num_of_disks'
    // to hold the disks
    src = createStack(num_of_disks);
    aux = createStack(num_of_disks);
    dest = createStack(num_of_disks);

    tohIterative(num_of_disks, src, aux, dest);
    return 0;
}

#Solution has taken from Google and  GeeksForGeeks