what is pointer?
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Answer / anantha sharma
Pointer is a variable that holds address of a memory location
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Answer / sumalatha
Pointer is nothing but it addresses the value.
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Answer / umakant gupta
Pointer is a kind of Array which store the Address of
Variable
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Answer / shekar
a pointer is a variable that stores the address of another
variable. we can a pointer to any variable ..
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Answer / vijay r15
pointer denotes the address of a variable
*denotes its a ptr var
Ex
Int a; //ordin var
Int *p; //ptr var going to hold sum address
P=&a; //p holds the address of a
With thanks and regards,
Vijay r15
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Answer / beesani
A pointer is a data type whose value refers directly to
another value stored elsewhere in the computer memory using
its address.
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Answer / shashikanth
pointer is a variable which can holds the addrese of another object.
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Answer / angel
Pointer is a variable.It may contains the memory address of
the another variable and is declared as the pointer.
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Answer / ankush tyagi
Pointers are a special type of variables which are used to
store the address of the another variable....
Four type of pointers are defined...
1.Near pointer
2.Fare pointer
3.Huge pointer
4.File pointer
Syntex //-
data type var_name;
data type *pointer_name;
pointer_name=&var_name;
in both the case data type should be same other wise we can
use the type casting;;;....
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Answer / rajendiran
pointer is address of the variable and identified the
variable location. if the pointer used to avoid the memory
wastage....
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