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Date:      Fri, 17 May 2002 11:04:06 +0100 (BST)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        shubhamr <shubhamr@malkauns.nsc.com>
Cc:        "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: confusion in C
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.44.0205171056100.28228-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <3CE4D043.DCB731F4@malkauns.nsc.com>

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On Fri, 17 May 2002, shubhamr wrote:

> am confused a bit over
> &a->b->c.
>
> can someone clear as to what it means?
>
> shubha

Yes, it means &(a->b->c), that is, the address of the c.

I dunno if this will help, but...

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

struct B {
        int c;
};

struct A {
        struct B *b;
};

main() {

        struct A *a = malloc(sizeof(struct A));
        struct B *b = a->b = malloc(sizeof(struct B));
        int *ptr_to_int = &a->b->c;

        b->c = 1234;

        if (*ptr_to_int == 1234)
                printf("&a->b->c has followed the links\n");
}


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printf 'cat\nhello world' | `sh -c 'read c; echo $c'`




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