Edward Bartolo: > KatolaZ wrote: > >> c) type **ss; // declare a pointer to pointer. System only allocates > >> space for one address > > > C pointers are *always* one variable, precisely a variable large > > enough to store a memory address on the current architecture. > > I think, I did not understand what you want to say. As far as I can > imagine a pointer to pointer is something like this: > [pointer1]------>[pointer2]------->[data] int the case of data** dt. ...
To be picky, "int ** id;", just defines an allocates one variable id that when used like **id will have the type int. It says nothing about what value id, *id, **id will have, nor if *id or **id will be in any way useful. For **id be useful *id has to have some defined value, e.g. int main(void) { int data = 4; int * pointer1 = & data; int ** pointer2 = & pointer1; int *** pointer3 = & pointer2; int **** pointer4 = & pointer3; /* etc... */ return **** pointer4; } $ gcc -Wall a.c; ./a.out; echo $? 4 Regards, /Karl Hammar ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Aspö Data Lilla Aspö 148 S-742 94 Östhammar Sweden +46 173 140 57 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng