laxmikanth_rajuri

• Feb 25th, 2006

 

Constant pointer:If a pointer is pointing to a constant whose value(constant)can't be changed.

Eg:Consider the declaration int a[10];

here a is a pointer to the base address of the array say 1000.When we try to modify  a value say a++ or a-- it will give error because a is a constant pointer to the array.

pointer constant:If a pointer doesn't to points to any variable,array,structure,object,structure,etc...such pointer is known as pointer constant.

Eg:The well known example for pointer constant is the predefine Macro NULL.

NULL is a pointer constant which doesn't to points to any thing. 

venkatesh

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• Feb 27th, 2006

 

pointer to constant: If a pointer is pointing to constant it is called as pointer to constant.In this case we cannot change the content of constant.

eg :  const int n=5;

  int *p=&n;

in this case we cannot change the value of n.

constant pointer:  If we declare a pointer as constant we can change the contents of memory pointed by pointer.But we cannot change the pointer value i.e incrementing or decrementing of pointer address.

Eg : const int *p=n;

Here we can change the content of n,but we cannot increment or decrement of pointer p(p++ or ++p).