what is the difference between normal variables and pointer
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Answer / guest
normal variables carry the specified data where as the
pointer variable carried the address of the specified data,,,,,
eg: if we give int x =10; ptr p=*x;here x is the normal
variable carries 10 and pointer variable is p which carried
address of the integer variable x.
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Answer / sree
normal variable stores a value of the given datatype where
as the pointer variable stores the address of a variable.
for example
int n=10;
int *p;
p=&n;
here p is a pointer variable and n is a normal
variable.p stores the address of n where as n stores an
integer value.
*p prints the value of n,p prints the address
of n.
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Normal variable is a variable which can hold a value as like
eg. int,float or char,it may be signed or unsigned and take
different memory space as per as their data type.But the
pointer variable is a variable which hold the address of a
another variable,and it is obviously unsigned and take
always 2 byte in memory space.
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Answer / sasireka
normal variable contains tha value of variable either int
or float whereas pointer variable contains the address of
another variable
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Answer / vignesh1988i
NORMAL VARIABLES POINTER VARIABLES
it holds a data it holds the address
of variable
another data when we
we make it to point
it can be directly referred data can be referred as *
by it's variable name
normal variables don't have data it has full data security
security
thank u
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Answer / fatima javaid
"Pointer variable holds memory address or physical address
of any variable value means it indirectly points any
vaiable,we can perform all operations +,*,-,and / through
it but normal variable directly points vaiable value"
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Answer / mani
Normal variable:memory size of variables depends upon respective datatype; if int it'll take 2byte , char will take 1 byte.
Pointer variable:memory size of pointer variable is constant that is 4byte in gcc compiler irrespective of any datatype.
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Answer / yshwanth
variable is an memory alocation were the value keps on
changing during the execution of the program
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Answer / abdinadir mohamed abdulle
"Pointer variable holds memory address or physical address
of any variable value means it indirectly points any
vaiable,we can perform all operations +,*,-,and / through
it but normal variable directly points vaiable value"
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Answer / ashu_deepu
one thing i wanna add is we canot perform some operation
with the pointers (like subtraction) while those can b
performed with the normal variables.
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