This page covers the following topics related to
Pointers in C : Definition of a pointer, Starting offl, Interlude: Declaration
syntax, Assignment and pointers, Dereferencing, Interlude: Arrays, Pointer
arithmetic , Indexing, Interlude: Structures and unions, Multiple indirection, Pointers and const, Function pointers, Strings.
In computer science, a pointer is a
programming language object, whose value refers to another value stored
elsewhere in the computer memory using its memory address. Topics covered
includes: Memory-mapped hardware, Typed pointers and casting, Making pointers
safer, Null pointer, Autorelative pointer, Based pointer, Multiple indirection,
Function pointer, Dangling pointer, Back pointer, Pointer declaration syntax,
Wild branch, Simulation using an array index.
This note covers the following topics: Pointers, Memory, Two Operators ,
Declaration, Passing Pointers to Functions , Multiple Return Values, Arrays,
Strings and Dynamically Allocating Arrays.