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C++ Language/Indirection/Pointers
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Evaluating the name of a pointer variable (piVar) produces a memory address.
Evaluating the "dereferencing" of that pointer variable (*piVar) produces whatever value had been stored in memory at that memory address.
Additional information about pointers