Book on Pointers

[Unregistered]

I'm planning to buy a book that has a good explanation of pointers. The C Primer Plus looks lika a possibility. Does anyone have any other recommendations?

[Prelude]

Pointers on C by Kenneth Reek.
This book is on my highly highly recommended list, read it, learn it, live it

-Prelude

[doubleanti]

>Pointers on C
[good, if inadvertent, pun]

hmm C / C++ : the Complete Reference [by Herbert Schildt...] and also, if you've coincidentally taken calculus... derivatives/integrals has a likeness to referencing/dereferencing which has a likeness to recursion/unwinding and nesting and etc...

[Brian]

Pointers ain't that hard. Just try using a graphics library and you'll redefine "hard".

example of pointers

int main(int argc,char *argv[])
{
	int a = 4;
	int &b = a;
	printf("a = %d, b = %d",a,b);
	a++;
	printf("\na = %d, b = %d",a,b);
	b++;
	printf("\na = %d, b = %d\n",a,b);
	return 0;
}

output :
a = 4, b = 4
a = 5, b = 5
a = 6, b = 6

that's pretty much all there is too it....but then you have pointers to strings...which are pretty simple

[Shiro]

The C Programming Language from Kernighan&Ritchie has also a very good chapter about pointers.

[Brian]

Edit by Govtcheez: Now, now Brian, be nice. vVv, in case you were wondering, Brian was expressing his extreme displeasure at your statement.

[Salem]

This is a pretty good explanation
http://pw2.netcom.com/~tjensen/ptr/cpoint.htm