What is use of pointer?

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A pointer is a variable whose value is the address of another variable, i.e., direct address of the memory location. Like any variable or constant, you must declare a pointer before you can use it to store any variable address.
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Pointers are the memory locations which stores the address of other variable...
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Pointer is mainly used to find the address of variables, arrays , structure etc. With this we can acces the values stored at this address.
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Pointers are used for referring memory addresses which has values stored with it. pointers can be sent as arguments to the functions . Multiple values can be added.
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A pointer is a variable containing address of another variable. It means when we use pointers, the execution speed is increased, pointers reduce the length and complexity of a program .
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Pointer is a memory reference where a variable stored.
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Pointer is a variable which can store the memory address of similar data type variable . Pointer is denoted by * which means "value at address" .
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It reffer physical location
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Computer science

Pointer are variable that hold a memory location.
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Dynamic memory allocation is possible and its a indirection operator
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