Starting Out With C++: Early Objects, Student Value Edition (9th Edition)
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Author: Tony Gaddis, Judy Walters, Godfrey Muganda
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Chapter 10, Problem 23RQE
Program Plan Intro
Pointer:
Pointer, the name itself references the purpose of the pointer. Pointers point to a location in memory.
- Pointer is a special type of variable to store the address of the memory location, which can be accessed later.
- If an asterisk “*” operator is present before the variable, then that variable is referred as pointer variable.
- It is also called as dereferencing or indirection operator.
- Pointer is just a type of variable that stores the addresses of other variables.
- Using pointers, we can access the address of a variable; the data stored in that variable can be retrieved.
Syntax of pointer variable declaration:
<variable-type> *<variable-name>;
Pointer to constant variable:
Pointer to constants can be used in a situation when an address of a constant item is passed to a pointer such that no modification can be made to those variables.
- The data contents of the pointer cannot be changed, but the address of the pointer can be changed.
- Value of the pointer remains constant throughout the execution.
- The Syntax of Pointer to constant variable is given below:
const <variable-type> *<variable-name>;
Example:
const double *pointer;
- In above statement, “pointer” is a pointer variable which is points to const double.
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