pointers

Stuby085 · August 30th, 2003, 06:37 AM

If I have a memory offset of x and it read a number y, how could i change that number y into something i wanted such as z?

Sebastiani · August 30th, 2003, 11:58 PM

Code:

#include <iostream>

int main(int argc, char * argv[])
{
 int y = 256;
 int * x = &y;
 *x = 1024;
 cout << y << endl; // prints '1024'
 return cin.get(); 
}

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