Pointers in C

C provides operator & to create a pointer to a variable

int x= 5;

int & p= &x;

int & y; The type of y is “int &”, read as

“address of int)

C provides operator a “dereferencing” operator

If p is a pointer to an int variable, then * is the variable.

* p = * p + 1;

int * x; The type of x is “int *”, read as

“pointer to int”

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