My understanding of pointers from the cplusplus documentation

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http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/pointers/

So this is how I learned to understand it:

& address-of operator (address of)

  • Dereference operator (value pointed to by)

myvar = 25;
foo = &myvar; // The value of foo is the address of myvar.
bar = myvar

baz = foo // baz equal to foo
baz = *foo // baz equal to the value pointed to by foo

A variable which stores the address of another variable is called a pointer.

So, with that said, according to the list above. foo = &myvar would mean that foo is equal to the address. Which in the case of the documentation it would be 1776. When reading baz = *foo, this means that baz is equal to the value pointed to by foo. So, baz would equal 25.

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Do excuse me for the bullet point below the second line of the post. That is actually supposed to be an asterisk, but the website thought I was trying to bullet point.

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