Hi, the way I remember it is that refers to a pointer if a datatype comes before it e.g. int . If there is no type beforehand, then is the dereference operation.
e.g. int p , declares a pointer to an int.
p refers to...
If it is an operator, that is referring to the value of a variable storing a specific address, so the content can be read or written.
If it is an specifier, that is denoting the date type is a pointer to something, like a pointer to integer, or even a...
This isn't a question but just something I find useful and hopefully others might also find useful, to get my head around the different uses of the operator in pointer syntax.
While it seems like the expression p can take on a few diffe...
A student recently emailed me with this related question. Thought the answer may also interest others.
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Hi Dr.McDonald,
I got a question out of interest inspired by a lab question. We know that calculating the floating number is inaccurate in comput...
Jigsaw Puzzle Robot, Or How We Solved a Puzzle in 15 Months
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Anyone have any idea what this is about?
A US 200 mouse that requires a software subscription.
Logitech has an idea for a forever mouse that requires a subscription
https arstechnica.com gadgets 2024 07 logitech-has-an-idea-for-a-forever...
In this morning's lecture, I mentioned that recent work on the sustainability of computing had recently measured the power consumption of contemporary programming languages on a series of benchmarks.
The paper is titled Ranking programming languages...
In today's lecture we saw why real-valued (floating-point) numbers are used very rarely, if at all, in systems programming and operating systems kernels.
Here's an article describing the problem,
Stop Using Floating-Point Numbers to Store Money
http...
