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+ | int *a; // This declares a as an integer pointer, meaning a can point to a memory address which contains an int | ||
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+ | *a = 5; //Makes the content of the address pointed to by a 5. But a is not pointing to any valid address (int *a assigns garbage value to a) and hence this assignment can cause segmentation fault | ||
<syntaxhighlight lang="c">
int main() {
int *a; *a=5; printf("%d",a);
return 0;
}
</syntaxhighlight>
int *a; // This declares a as an integer pointer, meaning a can point to a memory address which contains an int
<syntaxhighlight lang="c">
int main() {
int *a; *a=5; printf("%d",a);
return 0;
}
</syntaxhighlight>
int *a; // This declares a as an integer pointer, meaning a can point to a memory address which contains an int