Pointer in C++

[sara]

Hi All,

I think one the most difficult concepts in C++ in pointer handling. Do
you know any good and complete refrence which learn me this topic well?

Thanks a lot.

 

[Alf P. Steinbach]

* sara:

I think one the most difficult concepts in C++ in pointer handling. Do
you know any good and complete refrence which learn me this topic well?

This is not a reference (it's more like a chapter from a book with
looong chapters), and it's not complete (instead of the easy stuff that
novices shouldn't use and good professionals seldom use, such as raw
arrays, this goes more to understanding some "advanced" concepts, but
starting from scratch).

Yet I think it's what a novice needs to know.

Naturally I think that because I wrote it. <g>

<url: http://home.no.net/dubjai/win32cpptut/special/pointers/ch_01.pdf>

with example code in

<url:
http://home.no.net/dubjai/win32cpptut/special/pointers/ch_01_examples.zip>

 

[Jens Theisen]

I think one the most difficult concepts in C++ in pointer handling. Do
you know any good and complete refrence which learn me this topic well?

You probably know that, but you shouldn't be using C-style pointers in
C++ unless you know what you're doing. In particular, if your doing
pointer arithemetic (as ptr + i), you probably want to be doing
something else. So I suggest you first make sure that you are pretty
familiar with the STL containers and iterators before you begin to
deal with C-style pointers.

Regards,

Jens