C Tutorials Practical PointersC Tutorials - Practical Pointers
Practical Pointers
Finger Pointing
C's a Real Nowhere, Man
You Can't Get There from Here
Amnesia
One Blankety-Blank Trap After Another
Letting the Cat Out of the Bag
Sidebar 1 - Pulling a "Fast" One
Sidebar 2 - C Coding Suggestions
C pointers are simply memory addresses, they're notorious for contributing to tricky programs and hard-to-spot program bugs. C pointers are easier to use than assembler address operands, but C's low-level and unprotected exposure of addresses creates pitfalls for business application programs.