[manish muvel]

i don't understand pointers ????????????????????????

[janotte]

Read stuff
(Like this)
http://www.dreaminco...topic118308.htm

Apply what you read

Repeat.

[Spencer William]

Definitely read up on them, but do you have any specific question about them? As a very rough intro to pointers, think of them like this. They point to an object in memory. As opposed to actually storing the data, they store a copy of the address of the data. It's like opening your mailbox and instead of finding your package you found a note that told you where to get it. That being said, here's how to define them.

int * a; this instantiates a pointer to an int

so...

cout << a; would produce something like this ffa4ad56. basically a hex number

however, when you want to access the actual data being pointed to, you must "de-reference" the pointer.

like this.

cout << *a; that would produce the actual value of the int such as "4"

If you want to assign something be careful. Remember to de-reference or else you will change the value of the address in memory and bad things will happen.

so again if you want to change the value, do this.

*a = 10 and so on.

Hope this gets you started!

[Neeskens]

Those links helped me a lot when I was learning pointers in C.

Pointer Basics - http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/106/
Pointer and Memory - http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/102/

janotte, on 23 Dec, 2009 - 10:04 PM, said:

Read stuff
(Like this)
http://www.dreaminco...topic118308.htm

Apply what you read

Repeat.

Aren´t function pointers a little too much for a newbie.?

This post has been edited by Neeskens: 24 December 2009 - 01:31 PM

[Bench]

A few more excellent pointer links:
http://www.daweidesi...in/pointers.php
http://www.eternally...t_pointers.aspx
http://www.augustcou...torial/ptr.html
http://www.c-faq.com/ptrs/index.html

[ice-t]

u can read a lot but try to code and practice what u read,eventually u`ll get it.

[Aphex19]

Basically, its very simple. Pointers simply provide a way to directly access the memory of a computer. For example, lets say you want to change the value of a variable that is stored in memory. One way of doing that would be pointers.

For example...

int *pointer = NULL;

int num = 10;

pointer = #	  // Like saying , "Pointer = the address of num"

*pointer = 100;	  // Like saying, go to the address stored in pointer and change the value at that address to 100

now num = 100

You can add your own address to the pointer although, it can be dangarous...for example

inr *pointer = (int*)100;

pointer = 10;

That would change the value stored at address 100 to 10....