C permits the pointer to point to another pointer. This creates many layers of pointer and therefore called as multiple indirection.

C Multiple Indirection

     

This section illustrates you the concept of Multiple Indirection.

C permits the pointer to point to another pointer. This creates many layers of pointer and therefore called as multiple indirection. A pointer to a pointer has declaration is similar to that of a normal pointer but have more asterisk sign before them. This indicates the depth of the pointer. You can see in the given example, we have declared an integer variable i initialized to 100. The statement int ** pt creates a pointer which points to pointer to a variable with int value. We have passed the value of i to pointer pt2 and to pass the value of pt2 to pt1, we have used the statement pt1 = &pt2; which shows the Multiple Indirection.

Here is the code:

MULTINDI.C

#include <stdio.h> #include <conio.h> void main() {   int i =100;   int **pt1;   int *pt2;   clrscr();   pt2 = &i;   pt1 = &pt2;   printf("The value of **pt1 = %d \n "+   "The value of *pt2 = %d", **pt1, *pt2);   getch(); }

Output will be displayed as:

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