ANSI C Programming: Pointers

Course details

To describe how to write advanced, efficient ANSI C programs using pointers

• Defining and initializing pointers in ANSI C
• use the correct syntax for defining and initializing pointers in ANSI C.
• Coding pointers in ANSI C
• define and initialize pointers to different datatypes in ANSI C.
• Access by reference in ANSI C
• distinguish between access by reference and access by value and use access by reference to pass parameters to functions and structures in ANSI C.
• Passing pointers to pointers in ANSI C
• list the rules of double indirection and pass pointers to pointers in ANSI C.
• Pointer arithmetic in ANSI C
• increment and decrement pointers in ANSI C.
• Using pointers to functions in ANSI C
• define and initialize function pointers and arrays of function pointers in ANSI C.
• Using arrays of pointers in ANSI C
• define and initialize arrays of pointers in ANSI C.
• Matching ANSI C pointers to descriptions
• match a set of ANSI C pointer declarations with their descriptions.
• Dynamic storage allocation in ANSI C
• name the ANSI C functions responsible for allocating memory at runtime and identify their particular uses, allocate memory, using the malloc() function, and free memory, using the free() function.
• Using linked lists in ANSI C
• list the differences between linked lists and arrays and code a linked list in ANSI C.