Thread: Pointers pointers pointers....

Hi,

I am mucking around with pointers in a project and got a questions. The code below is not complete but it illustrates what i dont get.

main(){
/* defined elsewhere */
struct aStruct *f=NULL, **ff = NULL, ***fff = NULL;


f = getStruct(); /* gets a struct using malloc */

/* I dont get why i have to asign the address of the pointer
since f already is a pointer and i though a pointer is a
address and ff=f would do */

ff = &f;
(*fff)->x=54321;

etc...

/* Same here. I dont get why i have to asigne the address
of the pointer since i though a pointer is a address and
fff=ff would do */

fff = &ff
(**fff)->x=12345;
etc....

free(f);

}

G'n'R