Hi,
     Given that p is a pointer to int
and d is a int.

what is the difference between
*p=d
p=&d

Thanks!
rileyh@u.washington.edu

rileyh@u.washington.edu (Riley Hoselton) writes:

>Hi,
>     Given that p is a pointer to int
>and d is a int.

>what is the difference between
>*p=d
>p=&d

>Thanks!
>rileyh@u.washington.edu

These statements do ENTIRELY different things. To illustrate,
suppose we have a pointer (to integer) p and two integer variables
d1 and d2:

p = &d1;  // set p to point to d1
*p = d2;  // set object pointed to by p to the value of d2

If the two staements appeared consecutively, d1 would be set
to the value of d2.