Re: [Dev-C++] Addresses and Pointers

[w.y. <yok...@ve...>]

André Macário Barros wrote:
> 
> /* p4.c */
> ...
> 1-int x=16, *p;
> 2-
> 3-p=&x;
> 4-printf(“%d\n”, &*x);


>   - &* and *& cancel themselves
> 
> --->But p4.c isn´t working. The compiler is presenting the following error
> message:
>    "Invalid type argument of ´unary´"

The way I read &*x is first x is dereferenced, so it becomes

&16

and you cannot use the 'address of' operator & on a number, 16,
so you get an error.