Notes / GATE / C Programming

CH 01

Pointers, storage, recursion

C Programming · GATE

Key points

  • Arrays decay to a pointer to their first element; a[i] is *(a + i).
  • Static local variables keep their value between calls and are initialised once.
  • C passes arguments by value; to change the caller's variable, pass its address.
  • sizeof is evaluated at compile time (except for VLAs) and does not evaluate its operand.
  • Pointer arithmetic scales by the size of the pointed-to type.
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