What is ** in C++?

Question

I\'ve seen some code, as well as some errors generated from my compiler that have a \'**\' token before the variable (eg **variablename unreferenced-- or someth

Answer 1

It's not a ** token. It's simply a * token followed by another * token. In your case, you have a pointer to a pointer, and it's being dereferenced twice to get whatever's really being pointed to.