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The document discusses pointers in C programming. It defines pointers as variables that store the memory addresses of other variables. It provides examples of declaring pointer variables and using dereference and reference operators. It also covers pointer arithmetic, pointers to pointers, pointers to arrays, pointers as function arguments, pointers to structures including self-referential structures, enumerations, and bitfields. Key concepts are illustrated with code examples and outputs.
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A pointer in C language stores the address of another variable. Pointers are used to allocate memory dynamically at runtime. Pointer variables can be of any data type like int, float, char, etc. The & operator returns the address of a variable, while the * operator accesses the value stored at the address specified by the pointer. Pointers allow programs to manipulate memory addresses directly and access values indirectly through their memory addresses.
Pointer in c
A pointer in C language stores the address of another variable. Pointers are used to allocate memory dynamically at runtime. Pointer variables can be of any data type like int, float, char, etc. The & operator returns the address of a variable, while the * operator accesses the value stored at the address specified by the pointer. Pointers allow programs to manipulate memory addresses directly and access values indirectly through their memory addresses.
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- 1. Pointer A pointer is a variable that stores memory address. Like all other variables ,it also has a name, has to be declared and occupies some space in memory. It is called pointer because it points to a particular location in memory (by storing the address of that location). The expression having (*) operator is known as pointer expression. Pointer is the variable that points to the memory location of the next variable. So, we have to assign address of a variable to the pointer variable. Int a=5; Int *p1=&a; If we put *before p1, then, we can access the variable whose address is stored in p1. since p1 contains the address of variable a, we can access the variable a by writing *p1.
- 2. What are Pointers? Pointers are different from other normal variables. While other normal variables store values, pointers are special variables that can hold the address of a variable. Since they store memory address of a variable, the pointers are very commonly said to “point to variables”.
- 3. Pointer • A pointer is a variable which holds the address of the storage location value for another given variable. • C provides two operators & and * which allow pointers to be used in many versatile ways. *:- is the value of address eg.*a &:- is the address of variable eg. &a *(&a):- we are using the value which is inside of the address
- 4. pointer arithmetic operations are allowed? • A pointer can be incremented (++) or decremented (--) • An integer may be added to a pointer (+ or +=) • An integer may be subtracted from a pointer (- or -=) • One pointer may be subtracted from another
- 5. In c programming every variable keeps two type of value. 1. Contain of variable or value of variable. 2. Address of variable where it has stored in the memory. (1) Meaning of following simple pointer declaration and definition: int a=5; int * ptr; ptr=&a; Explanation: About variable a: 1. Name of variable : a 2. Value of variable which it keeps: 5 3. Address where it has stored in memory : 1025 (assume) About variable ptr: 4. Name of variable : ptr 5. Value of variable which it keeps: 1025 6. Address where it has stored in memory : 5000 (assume)
- 6. A normal variable ‘var’ has a memory address of 1001 and holds a value 50. A pointer variable has its own address 2047 but stores 1001, which is the address of the variable ‘var’
- 7. Another example: Int I, *j, **K; Here I is dinary int ,J is a pointer to an int , whereas K is a pointer to an integer pointer 3 65524 65522 i 65524 j 65522 65520 k
- 8. For example a ) valid example Int *p; Int num; P=# b) Invalid example Int *p; Float num; P=# /*as pointer variable p can not store address of float variable*/
- 9. Data type Integer Unsigned integer Octal Hexadecimal Float simple Float exponential Character string Conversion Charater D U O X F E C S
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