For beginners C Most friends of language , Maybe I tripped over the pointer more or less . For example, let's look at the following code ( Functions in a piece of code )

Is it hard to watch . Let's take a brief look at pointers .

1. What pointer ?

Pointers are used to store variable addresses .

For example, here for variables a Fetch address ——&a, We got an address 0x012FF8C0

  Since it is a value , We can define a variable to store it , This variable is called a pointer variable ( Variable to store address ).

 int* Is the pointer type , It's the same as what we usually call an integer , float , The character type is the same , Also char*,short* etc . It's just a pointer modifier .

We can see that the two addresses above are the same , Description pointer variable p Got it a Address of . When printing, you must distinguish what you want to print , If you want to print a Values in variables , It should be like this :

*p Indicates dereference , Which means that p Get the value in the address pointed to , here p point a Address of ,a In the address of 0. 

If we want to change a Values in variables , You can assign a value to *p, as follows :

This can be interpreted as p The value of the address pointed to is changed into 20 

Here we have a general idea of what a pointer is .

2. Some relations of pointers

(1) Pointer +- integer

for example :

there p+1 Indicates that the memory skipped four bytes , So pointer variables p+- Integer indicating how many bytes memory space is moved ( be careful : If this is changed to char* p=&a If , Only one byte skipped ) 

(2) Pointers and arrays

This is undoubtedly very important knowledge , Again, we can access arrays through pointer variables , We know that the array parameter passes the address of the first element of the array , as follows :

  Now that we have the address of the first element of the array , So we want to print a value in the array , You can access the corresponding value by changing the pointer variable , as follows :

  To change the value in the array element, you can also change it according to the pointer variable , as follows :

  We changed all the values in the array to 8

(3) Pointers and functions

Same as before , To access an address, we need to define a pointer variable , The same is true in functions , as follows :

  Through this comprehensive application , You should have a certain understanding of the pointer .

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