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authorSergey Avseyev <sergey.avseyev@gmail.com>2013-08-14 23:15:17 +0300
committerSergey Avseyev <sergey.avseyev@gmail.com>2013-08-14 23:18:10 +0300
commit162b5bb60dea93dac591005a73956be663313761 (patch)
tree7004d9ddd2834b950ea8f234bc13a64d742ed8d0
parent991e7b0045615427f5ccb12c3c85f262a2ac54e8 (diff)
Fix typo about how pointers are declared
Of course it is completely valid that star can go right after type name, but it might be not that obvious that during declaration the star is associated to the variable, not with the type name.
-rw-r--r--c.html.markdown7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/c.html.markdown b/c.html.markdown
index d243b19d..2b50efa0 100644
--- a/c.html.markdown
+++ b/c.html.markdown
@@ -230,10 +230,13 @@ printf("%p\n", &x); // Use & to retrieve the address of a variable
// (%p formats a pointer)
// => Prints some address in memory;
-// Pointer types end with * in their declaration
-int* px; // px is a pointer to an int
+
+// Pointers start with * in their declaration
+int *px, not_a_pointer; // px is a pointer to an int
px = &x; // Stores the address of x in px
printf("%p\n", px); // => Prints some address in memory
+printf("%d, %d\n", (int)sizeof(px), (int)sizeof(not_a_pointer));
+// => Prints "8, 4" on 64-bit system
// To retreive the value at the address a pointer is pointing to,
// put * in front to de-reference it.