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Top Forums Programming Help understanding pointer assignment in c Post 302362782 by broli on Saturday 17th of October 2009 03:03:12 PM
Old 10-17-2009
hmmm, so, with a "asdasd", the compiler takes care of alocating the memory

with the integer example, i have to use malloc, or create a normal integer, and point the pointer to the real integer

thanks for the clarification
 

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PAUSE(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						  PAUSE(3)

NAME
pause -- stop until signal LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h> int pause(void); DESCRIPTION
Pause is made obsolete by sigsuspend(2). The pause() function forces a process to pause until a signal is received from either the kill(2) function or an interval timer. (See setitimer(2).) Upon termination of a signal handler started during a pause(), the pause() call will return. RETURN VALUES
Always returns -1. ERRORS
The pause() function always returns: [EINTR] The call was interrupted. SEE ALSO
kill(2), poll(2), select(2), setitimer(2), sigsuspend(2) STANDARDS
The pause() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 (``POSIX.1''). HISTORY
A pause() syscall appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX. BSD
June 4, 1993 BSD
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