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Electrical Engineering Interview Question:
In C, explain the difference between the & operator and the * operator?
Submitted by: Administrator& is the address operator, and it creates pointer values.
* is the indirection operator, and it preferences pointers to access the object pointed to.
Example:
In the following example, the pointer ip is assigned the address of variable i (&i). After that assignment, the expression *ip refers to the same object denoted by i:
int i, j, *ip;
ip = &i;
i = 22;
j = *ip; /* j now has the value 22 */
*ip = 17; /* i now has the value 17 */
Submitted by: Administrator
* is the indirection operator, and it preferences pointers to access the object pointed to.
Example:
In the following example, the pointer ip is assigned the address of variable i (&i). After that assignment, the expression *ip refers to the same object denoted by i:
int i, j, *ip;
ip = &i;
i = 22;
j = *ip; /* j now has the value 22 */
*ip = 17; /* i now has the value 17 */
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