TIL: Recommended Way to Define Pointer Variables in C
Today, I learn that we should use int* x to define a pointer variable than int *x. Why?
Following is the way, we can define a variable in C.
int x = 3; printf("%d\n", x); // prints "3".
If we prefix this x variable with & as &x, it'll returns the address of given variable. The type of this return address is int* meaning address of integer and * as pointer to that address.
int* address = &x;
To print the address, we can use %p as placeholder.
printf("%p\n", address);
Notice, here I wrote address and not *address. Because, * is not part of address variable name than part of type.