This is an abstract by Nick Parlante. This pdf document explains how pointers and memory work and how to use them.
This document concentrate on explaining how pointers work.
This document starts with the basics and advances through all the major topics.Each basic concept is covered once and usually there is some example code and a memory drawing.
Topics:
1. Pointers
2. local memory
3. Allocation and Deallocation
4. Dereference operations
5. Pointer assignment
6. Deep vs Shallow copies
7. The ampersand operator ( & )
8. Bad pointers
9. The NULL pointer
10. Value parameters
11. Reference parameters
12. Heap allocation and deallocation
13. Memory ownership models and memory leaks
14. others...
This is an free education materials available at http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/102/
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