Pointer and “address-of”

10/09/98

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B.Ramamurthy

• Using typedef with pointer variables:

typedef int* PtrType;

PtrType P, Q;

• Consider the sample:

int* P;

int X = 12;

P= X; /*this illegal since P cannot be assigned the value of X (but it can be assigned the address of X)*/

• How? Using “address-of” operator &

P = &X;

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