Understanding Pointer In C

For a C programmer life without pointers is life without food. He needs more than just a nodding acquaintance with pointers if he desires to exploit their immense potential. Pointers present power and punch and his book covers everything that has anything to do with pointers in a simple, easy-to-understand way. Pointers lay at your door many extras. Little tit bits that make a C programmer's life easier. However, if not used properly, pointers help you do something heroically stupid. Read this book and resist that temptation. Table Of Contents Introduction To Pointers The & and * operators Pointer Expressions The Jargon of Pointers char, int and float Pointers Passing addresses to functions Functions returning Pointers Pointers and arrays Pointers and two dimensional arrays Passing 2-D Array to a function Three Dimensional Arrays Passing 3-D Array to a function Returning array from function Returning 3-D array from a function Array of pointers Pointers and strings The const qualifier Returning const values Two dimensional array of characters Array of pointers to strings Pointers and structures Offsets of structure elements Linked lists Doubly linked lists Pointers and data structures Merging of linked lists Linked lists and polynomials Sorting a linked list Circular linked list Trees Binary trees Traversal of a binary tree Deletion from a binary tree Threaded binary tree File Pointers Pointers to functions typedef with function pointers Pointers and varargs Applications of pointers