When a pointer is first declared its value is undefined. You can assign the special value NULL which plays the same role as Pascal's nil. You can allocate memory to pointers using the function ...

For low level programming the need to manipulate the bytes that make up a more complex representation is very common. One long standing way of doing the job, especially in programs that target a ...

This article describes how to use function pointers in various ways to increase the performance and/or the readability of your code. I will try to make this as easy to understand as possible for ...

In the first part of this series, we covered the basics of pointers in C, and went on to more complex arrangements and pointer arithmetic in the second part. Both times, we focused solely on pointers ...

We all know that smart pointers are really nice things and we should be using them instead of raw new and delete. But what if deleting a pointer is not only the thing we need to call before the object ...