Pointers in C
The cluster centers on discussions about pointers in the C programming language, including their challenges, pointer arithmetic, differences from references and arrays, learning tips, and practical usage.
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What's the difference, in practice? Just the fact that you can do pointer arithmetic on the former?
You're not supposed to do pointer arithmetic with these pointers. It's generally meant for storing pointers "at rest".
How do I learn all these pointer hacks in C?
How do you keep your sanity while using pointers in C?
He probably doesn’t want pointer arithmetic.
Ah, not the pointer problems I thought they were talking about...
pointer is an implementation detail. No one should have to learned that first.
For C it was about the pointers.
The comment specifically referred to references and pointers whereas your example does not.
forgot to mention every char and [] are also implied pointers