From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c47ddb0bc6054f84 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-08 08:11:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!server3.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Question about pointer Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 15:41:01 +0100 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3DA2EE7D.A6DB9A2B@brighton.ac.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: straumli.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 1034088000 17162 193.62.183.204 (8 Oct 2002 14:40:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Oct 2002 14:40:00 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29589 Date: 2002-10-08T14:40:00+00:00 List-Id: Dominic D'Apice wrote: > > Hello all, > > I'm just discover the pointer concept, i understand how it works. > > But, right now, i don't know what is the advantage of utilisation of > pointer in a program > > Can someone tell me what king of program we do with pointer ? Have a look here: http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/language/c/ptrtut/pointers.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------