why do we need to declare pointers?

Question

why do we declare pointers to store address, cant we store address in any other variable which is not pointer using the & operator?

Answer 1

no, it is how it works.

the declaration defines what type of address it is savi g ....live integer pointer for integer , obj pointer for obj class ...

after u get the address u can save it as ur wish in any int or long variable as all the addresses are int or long ....based on 32 bit or 64 bit