Null termination is no longer recommended, use fat pointers instead!

Why would I want to be shown the concept of pointers by an eight year old?

I think int*** is meant to be pointing at int**, but the image is just unclear about where everything is in perspective.

yep this is just someone misunderstanding pointers lol

Seeing him break containment is wild

Drift King? You mean Dan the Villian

I they're supposed to be pointing at each other but the edit didn't really work because his arm is pointing too far away

Perspective innit

Smart pointers implies C++, which is not the right answer.

Uh

I think I'll just let the cat drive instead

They all have footguns that cause different crashes.

If you want to do explicit memory access without inevitable safety problems, you need Rust. That's the whole hype with Rust.

Dynamically allocated multidimensional arrays.

The & operator references the value.

int i;
int* p = &i;

In C++, the & at the function argument makes it a reference type (safe pointer).

void someFunction(int& refVal) {
    [...]
}

*x = dereference or "point to". Treats the variable x as containing a pointer value. Evaluates to a variable existing at the address in x.

&x = reference or "get address of". Evaluates to the address of x.

They're complimentary operators, so *(&x) cancels out and is equvalent to just x.