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In the C family of languages, &x means “the address of x” and *y means “the value at the address y”.
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In the C language, the ampersand &symbol has two primary meanings: the address-of operator and the bitwise AND operator.
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In C language, the & symbol has two main meanings depending on how it’s used: 1. Address-of Operator When used in front of a variable, & gives the memory address of that variable. Example: cCopyEditint x = 10; printf("%p", &x); // prints the memory address of x...
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In C language, the&symbol hastwo main meaningsdepending on how it’s used: 1. Address-of Operator When used in front of a variable,&gives thememory addressof that variable. Example: cCopyEditint x = 10; printf("%p", &x); // prints the memory address of x ✅Used to pass variables by referenceor for pointer operations. 2. Bitwise AND Operator When used between two values,&performs abitwise AND operation— it compares each bit of two integers and returns 1 only if both bits are 1. Example: cCopyEditint a = 6; // 0110 in binary int b = 3; // 0011 in binary int result = a & b; // result = 2 (0010) ✅Used for low-level operations, masking bits, etc. read less
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the address-of operator and the bitwise AND operator.
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The Address Operator in C is a special unary operator that returns the address of a variable. It is denoted as the Ampersand Symbol ( & ). This operator returns an integer value which is the address of its operand in the memory.
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