Type Declaration - Pointer Asterisk Position

Question

in C++, the following means \"allocate memory for an int pointer\":

int* number;

So, the asterisk is part of the variable type; without it,

Answer 1

This is just one of the many irregularities of C's declaration syntax. The type modifier * is part of the type, yet syntactically it belongs to the identifier that's declared.
The same is true for & and [], BTW.

See here for what * does besides modifying a type.