I know what pointers do, that they point to a specific memory location. But what is the actual thing that is pointing to that memory location?
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I know what pointers do, that they point to a specific memory location. But what is the actual thing that is pointing to that memory location?
A pointer is an integer holding the memory address to whatever it points to.