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Old 01-28-2008
JamesGoh JamesGoh is offline
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Quote:
Originally Posted by shamrock View Post
Code:
int *ptr=5;
Pointer can only be initialized to zero or null if it does not point to a variable of that type.
So this is always the case (except for user-defined strings) in real world programming, even though individual ASCII characters (such as 5) have memory addresses ?