Pointers in C Programming: A Modern Approach to Memory Management, Recursive Data Structures, Strings, and Arrays

© Thomas Mailund 2021

T. MailundPointers in C Programminghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6927-5_17

17. Conclusions

Thomas Mailund¹  

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Aarhus N, Denmark

 

We have reached the end of the book, and by now, you know everything you need to know to effectively use pointers in your programs. The basic idea behind pointers, seeing them as addresses into memory, where the objects you want to manipulate reside, is a simple one and an elegant solution to many programming issues. You can use pointers to dynamically allocate memory as needed when you only know your needs at runtime. You can use pointers to create recursive data structures—data structures that contain instances of the same structure—such as linked lists and search trees. You can use pointers ...