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kumarpyasa

Hello dear
Pointers and references are the different
1. pointers use the “*” and “->” operators and references use “.“
2. A pointer can be re-assigned any number of times while a reference can not be reassigned after
initialization.
3.A pointer can point to NULL while reference can never point to NULL
4. You can't take the address of a reference like you can with pointers
5. There's no "reference arithmetics" (but you can take the address of an object pointed by a
reference and do pointer arithmetics on it as in &obj + 5).

kumarpyasa Banned
1Mar2011,12:40
	Hello dear Pointers and references are the different 1. pointers use the “*” and “->” operators and references use “.“ 2. A pointer can be re-assigned any number of times while a reference can not be reassigned after initialization. 3.A pointer can point to NULL while reference can never point to NULL 4. You can't take the address of a reference like you can with pointers 5. There's no "reference arithmetics" (but you can take the address of an object pointed by a reference and do pointer arithmetics on it as in &obj + 5).