Pointer and “pointer to”

10/09/98

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B.Ramamurthy

• Consider the sample:

int* P;

Here P point to an address. To assign value to its contents:

*P = 6; can be used.

In other words, when P refers to a address *P refers to its contents.

• Memory can be dynamically allocated using new built-in function of C++ language.

• P = new int;

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