Thread: Speed of pointers vs. speed of arrays/structs

  1. 06-27-2008 #31
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    Quote Originally Posted by laserlight View Post
    Could you elaborate? A pointer is of a different type from a pointer to itself, so how can it point to itself unless there is an error in the code?

    I suspect that the example is a strawman to begin with since it seems to deal with a loop index while iterating with a pointer, whereas there is the idiom of using the pointer to iterate directly.
    Not sure, but I think he was point that maybe situation where *p++ = &p, but I think more on it, I don't see anythinkg with sense.
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    You would use it as a parameter to functions. There's a couple of examples here:
    http://www.devx.com/tips/Tip/13825

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    Not sure, but I think he was point that maybe situation where *p++ = &p, but I think more on it, I don't see anythinkg with sense.
    Indeed, because if *p is of type T, then p is of type T*, and &p is of type T**, so that statement assigns a T** to a T, which is clearly a mistake.
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