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University of Computer Studies

(Mandalay)

Chapter 10
Pointers

Presented By: Dr. May Phyo Thu


Lecturer
Faculty of Computer Science
Outline
▪ Addresses and Pointers​
▪ The Address-of Operator (&)​
▪ Pointer Variables (Syntax, Value, Accessing the Variable Pointed to)

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Objectives

▪ To explain the fundamental concepts of pointers​

▪ To understand the syntax and semantics of pointers​

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Fundamental Concepts of Pointer​
▪ Pointers store memory addresses
▪ Reference variable can also be used to get the memory address of a variable.
▪ The address of a memory location of a variable through the reference operator “
& ”​
▪ The value of pointer variables can be accessed indirectly by using dereferencing
operator “ * ”​

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Addresses and Pointers ​
Addresses​
▪ A computer memory location has an
address and holds a content.
▪ Every byte in the computer’s memory has
an address.
▪ The address is a numerical number
(hexadecimal) which is hard for
programmers to use directly.

Figure 1 : Memory Addresses

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The Addresses -of Operators & ​
▪ The address operator(&) returns the address of memory where a variable is
located. It is called reference operator.
▪ The address of variable can be obtained by preceding the name of a variable with
an ampersand sign(&). data variable name
Example
11 value
int data ;
data = 11; 0x0000ff01 variable’s address
cout << “Variable’s name : data” <<endl;
Variable’s name : data​
cout << “Value of Data : ”<< data <<endl;
Value of data: 11​
cout << “Address of Data : ”<< &data <<endl; Address of data: 0x0000ff01​

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Addresses and Pointers(Cont’d) ​
Pointer is a variable which stores the int var;
address of another variable. Which is int *ptr;
used to access the memory and
var = 10;
manipulate the address.
ptr = 10;
C++ provides two pointer operators
ptr = var;
▪ Address of Operator &
ptr = &var;
▪ Indirection Operator *​
cout <<“\n value of var=” << var;
value of var = 10​ cout <<“\n value of pointer=”<< ptr;
value of pointer = 0001​
cout <<“\n point value of ptr=” << *ptr;
point value of ptr = 10​
address of var = 0001​ cout <<“\n address of var=” << &var;
address of ptr = 0009​ cout <<“\n address of ptr=” << &ptr;
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Pointers Variables​
▪ char * cptr; //pointer to char
▪ int * iptr; //pointer to int
▪ float* fptr; //pointer to float
▪ Distance* distptr;//pointer to Distance (user defined data type)

Pointer
char* ptr1, * ptr2, *ptr3; Declaration
int *ptr4, *ptr5;

A pointer variable can hold the address of any variable of the correct type; it’s a
receptacle awaiting an address.
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Accessing the Variable Pointed To
(Example)​
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
int var1, var2; // declarations of two variables ​
int* ptr: // declaration of pointer variable​
var1 = 11; // value 11 is assigned to var1 ​
var2 = 22; // value 22 is assigned to var2 ​
ptr = &var1; //pointer points to var1​
cout <<“var1:”<< *ptr << endl; //print contents of pointer (11)
ptr = &var2; //pointer points to var2 ​
var1:11
cout <<“var2:”<< *ptr << endl; //print contents of pointer (22)
var2:22​
return 0; ​
}​
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