C++ Pointers

Question

I don’t think I fully understand, what’s the practical usage of pointers in C++?

Answer 1

@Ismail I'd say so. Most of my work which involves pointers, would involve dynamic memory allocation. E.g. Dealing with linked lists, binary trees.

https://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/lesson18.html

Answer 2

https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/951452/?ref=app
https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/200823/?ref=app
https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/915351/?ref=app

Answer 3

So it’s mainly for dynamic memory allocation then?

Answer 4

@Ismail Hasan
or link to pointer the address of another variable.
int x = 64;
int* y = &x;