Pointers in C

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Each data used in an application must be defined, i.e. memory must be reserved for him. Assigning values to a data means that this value is stored in a binary form to a specific memory location. In this case, the data memory is occupied by the number of memory bits that it occupies for a particular type of data. For example. for the int-type data in C / C ++, this would be 16 or 32 bits.
Each memory location has its own address. This number is associated with a location. The smallest memory location that can be addressed independently is usually one byte.
The pointer is a free data into which the address of a location in the memory can be placed.
Data shown by pointers can be of different types.

When some data takes up more than one byte, the data address is the byte with the least serial number.
The address of a data in the memory can be obtained using the prefixed uninterrupted operator &. See more about operators on the pages operators in languages C/C++.

Defining the pointer

* pointer_identifier

Let's look at the following code:

int a=1;

int *pint;

pint= &a;

cout << a << endl;

cout << pint << endl;

On standard output:

An integer data was introduced and initialized to a value of 1. Also, a pint to the integer data was introduced and it was initialized with the memory address of the data a. Note that a large number in a hexadecimal record is obtained when printing a pointer value. Memory addresses are usually such values.

A description of the data type at the beginning of a declarative command indicates the type of displayed data. Previously, it was int int. the cursor points to the whole number. If the data were double, then the double data pointer would be defined and initialized in the following way:

double x =2;

double *pdb;

pdb= &x;

Assign data values via the pointer to another data

If we would like to introduce in the previous example another data of type double, for example. y and to initialize this value using a pointer to x, we would add the following code:

double x=2;

double *pdb;

pdb= &x;

double y;

y= *pdb; //y is now 2

Address arithmetic

In C / C ++, the following operations are allowed over the cursors: