Dereferencing pointers and the address operator
Dereferencing refers to accessing the value that a pointer points to.
To do this “*” operator that interprets single argument as an address and returns the contents of the address as the value of the operation. Usage:
n*p
EXAMPLE:
n int i = 25, *j;
n Here, j is a pointer to integer. Assume i and j are allocated memory cells at addresses 5FA62 and 5FA70, respectively. This means that the value of i is 25, &i is 5FA62 and the value of &j is 5FA70.