Many “freshman” programmers do not fully understand or appreciate pointers in the C language. When I wanted to learn about pointers— variables that contain a memory address— I took a book on summer ...

In our first part on pointers, we covered the basics and common pitfalls of pointers in C. If we had to break it down into one sentence, the main principle of pointers is that they are simply data ...

Learn how managed pointers differ from object references, why they are useful, and how to work with them in C# A pointer is a variable that points to the address of another variable. In other words, a ...

The previous two posts (part 1 and part 2) have been exploring the fundamentals of using pointers from the basics of declaring a pointer to the more complex notation of manipulating pointers. An ...

Hi everyone,<BR><BR>I'm continuing on my c coding adventures and I've hit a pointer snag.<BR><BR>I'm basically maintaining a fixed collection of structs that I would like to handle using an array of ...

Top level array type variables with initializers are translated to global array type variables with initializers in C lang when they are arrays of int. But if they are arrays of pointers to int or ...