Chapter 8: C Pointers and Arrays........................................................................
Chapter 8: C Pointers and Arrays
Addresses of variables
During the stone age of computers, when C was written, programming was done
by positioning switches and looking at lights.
Figure 26: The PDP-11 could be programmed by switches, though Dennis Ritchie used a
eletype machine to write the C programming language.
presented data another represented the address of a memory
ted to stick the data. Addresses are sequential and representT
One set of switches re
location that you wan
contiguous memory locations.