From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: richard@inf.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 15:04:45 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [TUHS] C declarations.
In-Reply-To: Ron Natalie's message of Thu, 11 May 2017 17:49:31 -0400
Message-ID: <20170512140445.EA5DD126E33E@macaroni.inf.ed.ac.uk>

> The problem with that is that * doesn't really bind to the type name. 
> It binds to the variable.
> 
> char* cp1, cp2;   // cp1 is pointer to char,   cp2 is just a char.
> 
> I always found it confusing that the * is used to indicate an pointer
> here, where as when you want to change an lvalue to a pointer, you use
> &.

The way to read it is that you are declaring *cp1 as a char.

-- Richard

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