Pointers in C provides a resource for professionals and advanced
students needing in-depth but hands-on coverage of pointer basics and
advanced features. The goal is to help programmers in wielding the full
potential of pointers.
In spite of its vast usage, understanding and proper usage of pointers
remains a significant problem. This book's aim is to first introduce the
basic building blocks such as elaborate details about memory, the
compilation process (parsing/preprocessing/assembler/object code
generation), the runtime memory organization of an executable and
virtual memory. These basic building blocks will help both beginners and
advanced readers to grasp the notion of pointers very easily and
clearly. The book is enriched with several illustrations, pictorial
examples, and code from different contexts (Device driver code snippets,
algorithm, and data structures code where pointers are used).
Pointers in C contains several quick tips which will be useful for
programmers for not just learning the pointer concept but also while
using other features of the C language. Chapters in the book are
intuitive, and there is a strict logical flow among them and each
chapter forms a basis for the next chapter. This book contains every
small aspect of pointer features in the C language in their entirety.