In C, what is the correct syntax for declaring pointers?

Question

I vaguely recall seeing this before in an answer to another question, but searching has failed to yield the answer.

I can\'t recall what is the proper way t

Answer 1

Those two are exactly the same.

However, for the purposes of declaring multiple variables, as in below:

int * p1, p2;

where p1 is of type pointer to int, but p2 is of type int. If you wished to declare p2 as a pointer to int, you have to write:

int *p1, *p2;