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The Pointer

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A pointer is a variable holding the memory address of another variable — the mechanism giving a program direct reach into memory's layout.

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A slip of paper carrying an apartment's address is not the apartment, and it finds the apartment.

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Direct reach cuts both ways; the address can be wrong.