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We'll see shortly how a pointer is set to point to something -- for now just assume the

pointer points to memory of the appropriate type. In an expression, the unary  * to the left

of a pointer dereferences it to retrieve the value it points to. The following drawing shows

the types involved with a single pointer pointing to a struct fraction.

struct fraction* f1;

There's an alternate, more readable syntax available for dereferencing a pointer to a

struct. A "->" at the right of the pointer can access any of the fields in the struct. So the reference to the numerator field could be written f1->numerator.

Here are some more complex declarations...

struct fraction** fp;      // a pointer to a pointer to a struct fraction struct fraction fract_array[20];  // an array of 20 struct fractions struct fraction* fract_ptr_array[20];       // an array of 20 pointers to

// struct fractions

One nice thing about the C type syntax is that it avoids the circular definition problems which come up when a pointer structure needs to refer to itself. The following definition defines a node in a linked list. Note that no preparatory declaration of the node pointer

type is necessary.

struct node {

int data;

struct node* next;

};

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