The C++ Programming Language, Special Edition

Chapter 5. Pointers, Arrays, and Structures

	The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately.
	--Tom Paine

Pointers — zero — arrays — string literals — pointers into arrays — constants — pointers and constants — references — void* — data structures — advice — exercises.

Pointers

For a type T, T* is the type “pointer to T.” That is, a variable of type T* can hold the address of an object of type T. For example:

char c = 'a';
char* p = &c;        // p holds the address of c

or graphically:

Unfortunately, pointers to arrays and pointers to functions need a more complicated notation:

int* pi;               // pointer to ...