Hi,
I've been given some source code, and there's a structure called Datastruc, which a certain function has in its argument like so Somefunc( Datastruc* A).
In other words, the * indirection op is not attached to the variable, but rather to the declaration, Datastruc. Is there really a difference? How can I call this function when I have already declared a variable Datastruc *A?
Thanks in advance for help.
There is no difference.
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You can have any number of spaces [any whitespace, in fact] on either side of the *, zero or more, so these are all the same:
Some people seem to prever to put the star next to the type, others prefer the star next to the variable name - it's a little bit misleading, in my opinion, to put it next to the type, since that can lead to someone else reading the code thinking that this declares two pointers:Code:char *a; char* a; char*a; char * a; char * // newline counts as a whitespace. a;
notaptr is of type int, not int*.Code:int* aptr, notaptr;
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