error: invalid type argument of ‘unary *’ (have ‘int’)

Question

I have a C Program:

#include 
int main(){
  int b = 10;             //assign the integer 10 to variable \'b\'

  int *a;                 //dec         


        

Answer 1

Barebones C program to produce the above error:

#include 
using namespace std;
int main(){
    char *p;
    *p = 'c';

    cout << *p[0];  
    //error: invalid type argument of `unary *'
    //peeking too deeply into p, that's a paddlin.

    cout << **p;    
    //error: invalid type argument of `unary *'
    //peeking too deeply into p, you better believe that's a paddlin.
}

ELI5:

The master puts a shiny round stone inside a small box and gives it to a student. The master says: "Open the box and remove the stone". The student does so.

Then the master says: "Now open the stone and remove the stone". The student said: "I can't open a stone".

The student was then enlightened.