Introduction

Ever since the introduction of the C programming language in 1978,it has been regarded as a powerful language and has gained popularity among programmers worldwide. Despite starting as a language for the UNIX operating system, it has been used extensively in implementing wonderful and very complex software on multiple platforms. C has always been the default choice of language for writing any low level layers, device drivers, embedded system programming, programming mobile devices and so on.

One of most important features of C is pointers, which is an interesting topic and many times difficult to grasp. C being a relatively low level language, requires that programmers are well versed with many fundamental notions of computers while ...

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