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char *p = "this";

Isn't this declaration wrong? "&" should come before "this" as p is a pointer???

3rd Jul 2017, 3:15 PM
Kushagra Agarwal
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if "this" was a value of some variable, then yes *p would need to be assigned to the reference of that variable i.e: // Pointers job is to hold a value // in this case it has to de-reference &myVar char myVar = 'a'; char *p = &myVar; // in your case, you have no variable assigned // and since pointers hold usual values (abc,123 etc) // it is allowed to do: char *p = 'a';
3rd Jul 2017, 3:45 PM
Nedim Kanat
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'this' is a pointer
3rd Jul 2017, 3:20 PM
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