pointer dereferencing in c

Pointer Dereference in C and C++

Before you will understand take a quick overview of "What is Pointer" because I have some reference from my that article.

Now coming to the current article,

The "dereference" operation follows a pointer's reference to get the value of its pointee. The value of the dereference of numPtr above is 42(diagram is in the above "What is Pointer" article). When the dereference operation is used correctly, it's simple. It just accesses the value of the pointee. The only restriction is that the pointer must have a pointee for the dereference to access. Almost all bugs in pointer code involve violating that one restriction. A pointer must be assigned a pointee before dereference operations will work.

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