Knowing how references really differ from pointers should help you decide when to use references and when to stick with pointers. In C++, references provide many of the same capabilities as pointers.

A concept in C programming that is absolutely essential and fundamental to all software design but often misunderstood is pointers. A pointer is used in C to point to the address of a variable or a ...

The previous two posts (part 1 and part 2) have been exploring the fundamentals of using pointers from the basics of declaring a pointer to the more complex notation of manipulating pointers. An ...