addressof

I was playing around with gcc and tried the following bit of code: int A = 42; int *B = &A; int *C = &*B; And C == &A , as expected. But when I try: int *B = NULL; int *C = &*B; Turns out C == NULL , and no segfault. So &*B is not actually dereferencing B before taking its address. My guess is that the preprocessor is stripping out instances of &* and *& before they even get to the compiler since they negate each other, but I can't find any documentation to verify whether this is standard C or compiler-specific. Is the preprocessor stripping out &* and *& , and can I expect this behavior from

I've asked a question here about whether taking the address of a function forces the compilation of said function specifically with regard to Substitution-Failure-Is-Not-An-Error. The most direct answer to this can be found here : Informally, an object is odr-used if its address is taken, or a reference is bound to it, and a function is odr-used if a function call to it is made or its address is taken. If an object or a function is odr-used, its definition must exist somewhere in the program; a violation of that is a link-time error. But all the compilers I've tested show this as perfectly

I am trying to implement this example http://blog.evonet.com.au/post/Gridview-with-highlighted-search-results.aspx but the only problem I am facing is the AddressOf keyword of VB.net which I am unable to convert in C#.net can anybody help me out with this, what alternative I should use to make it work. Thanks. Edit: I found some searches on stackoverflow regarding similar problems but I am unable to understand them. You can just leave it out. Method groups are implicitly convertible to delegates in C#. return ResultStr.Replace(InputTxt, new MatchEvaluator(ReplaceWords)) Or even simpler(I think

Is it possible to assign a variable the address you want, in the memory? I tried to do so but I am getting an error as "Lvalue required as left operand of assignment". int main() { int i = 10; &i = 7200; printf("i=%d address=%u", i, &i); } What is wrong with my approach? Is there any way in C in which we can assign an address we want, to a variable? Not directly. You can do this though : int* i = 7200; .. and then use i (ie. *i = 10) but you will most likely get a crash. This is only meaningful when doing low level development - device drivers, etc... with known memory addreses. Assuming you