Just a quick question:
on a 32 bit machine, is a pointer to a pointer (**p) going to be 4 bytes?
Just a quick question: on a 32 bit machine, is a pointer to a
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Just a quick question:
on a 32 bit machine, is a pointer to a pointer (**p) going to be 4 bytes?
The logic is that pointers are merely memory addresses. The memory address of any stored entity in a machine with 32-bit addresses is almost certainly 4 bytes. Therefore the memory address of a stored pointer is 4 bytes. Therefore a pointer to a pointer is 4 bytes. None of this is promised by the ISO C standard. It’s just the way that nearly all implementations turn out.