pointer q

A recent post of mine showed a sufficiently large gaffe on pointers as to
need to return to K&R 5.1-6 appendix A8.6.1 . So we have type specifiers:
int
long
.. One dreams himself variable names: qwe, qwr, writes

int qwe;
long qwr;

and thinks he knows what types he's declared. Had you asked me about:

int *qwe;
long *qwr;

I would have said the pointers declared were--while pointng to different
types--of the same type. Why am I wrong? Joe


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