Re: Good Tutorials

Amkcoder said:

<snip>

The reason Universities, who make real programmers, say that a pointer
is a variable
that holds the address of another, it is.

You have been shown several counterexamples. Here are a few to refresh your
memory:

malloc(256)
myarray + offset
&integerobject
printf

None of these pointers is a variable that holds the address of another
variable. So now you have three choices:

1) accept that you're wrong;
2) explain why the counterexamples don't apply;
3) neither of the above.

1) and 2) are both honourable options, but 3) just suggests that you don't
know what you're talking about.

This is because every time you declare a pointer it allocates enough
bytes to hold
a value,

Not true. For example, here's a declaration of a pointer that doesn't
allocate any bytes at all:

extern int *p;

<snip>

So he's is an expert?
Then call me the professional.

Why? You have not yet convinced me that you have the slightest idea what
you're talking about.

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