The Merciless Lord of Everything wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Peter Ajamian wrote:
>
> > Note that unlike a pointer you cannot change what this variable
> > points to, it is constant and will always point to the same area of
> > memory.
> I do realize that I would be grabbing a bit of memory, but a pointer
> surely grabs memory as well yes? (be that random memory :). But I'm not
> sure I understand the problem with having it point to the same area of
> memory?
Barring the small amount of memory used to hold the pointer itself no
memory is allocated for a pointer. When you define a pointer it will be
pointing to a random area of memory, however if you attempt to read or
write to that area of memory before initializing the pointer you will
most likely end up with a seg fault or worse.
Regards, peter
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