From our study of C++, it should be clear that, unlike class encapsulation and single inheritance, which were essentially free in C, polymorphism in C involves some complexity and overhead. In the ...

Many “freshman” programmers do not fully understand or appreciate pointers in the C language. When I wanted to learn about pointers— variables that contain a memory address— I took a book on summer ...

Programming in C can be tough for those new to the language, so Dennis Kubes wrote “ The 5-minute Guide to C Pointers,” and put it on his blog. Only four code snippets are needed for Kubes to ...

Once again, pointers are simply memory addresses, and to fully utilize this similarity, C provides the concept of function pointers.