CHAPTER 3
Pointer Arithmetic and Single Dimension Arrays
Arithmetic operations can be performed on most, but not all variables. Fortunately, these operations can also be performed on pointer variables. This is one of the most important uses of pointers, in addition to referencing and dereferencing the memory addresses.
This navigation is achieved with the help of some limited arithmetic operations provided by C language.
When visualizing memory as laid out in consecutive blocks, the natural thought process points us to the array data type because an array’s indices are laid out consecutively, too. The usage of pointer arithmetic comes along with ...
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