in c programing what is the difference between float*a; and float a;
i am in ty.b.sc mathematics and i am studding c programing so i am confiused in some question like
Q:type declaration in c
Q:call by reference,call by value for user-defined function
Q:difference between 1.'a' and"a"
2.atoi() and atof() functions
49 Views|Posted 2011-07-15 20:25:16
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2011-07-15 21:08:48
float a means declaring a variable representing a decimal value and float *a means pointer to a containing the address of the variable in memory.
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2011-07-15 21:53:35
Hi anam,,we declare variables in a programming language so that v can store some values in it...Now by doing "float a" you r declaring or creating a storage location in memory which is named as "a" & now you can store fractional number in variable "a"...By doing "float* a" you are declaring a pointe
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2011-07-15 20:51:05
well float a means that you are declaring variable a as float which means that a shuld be in decimal form.
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