What do the little Asterisk tokens do??

[DevPortal]

I'm a noob-to-moderate C programmer and I can typically do whatever it is that I'm doing w/o worrying about this, but what do the little asterisks mean by variables (usually during declaration)? Sometimes my code will not work, and I'll try adding one and it will...

 

[DaveSinkula]

Pointers? If so I'd exclude the "moderate" part.

 

[butthead]

http://pweb.netcom.com/~tjensen/ptr/pointers.htm

when you get this part you may add the "moderate"
to your moniker. until then.......... ;-)

tomcruz.net

 

[sedj]

lol, I'd consider myself a "noobie" at C/C++, and I've been programming an application server in it solidly for a year

I'd stop and do some serious reading/tutorials before continuing. Seeing that you are monkeying around with HD sectors and stuff (see Assembly forum), if you don't fully understand pointers in C, you could end up in serious trouble.

Have some fun with Blinky

http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/104/

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[DevPortal]

I read the article, thanks. I had gone into C more deeply (as far as tutorials go) previously, but it's been a while. I remember going over this stuff. Anyway, @sedj, Those were floppy sectors, its a bit safer than messing with ur HDD >.<