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		1718627440 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why tail-recursive functions are loops Yes. You claimed you can't have pointers to a variable. I showed how to have a pointer to a variable of type integer.

ramchip 5 months ago [–]

If you dereference it you get back an integer, not a variable. A variable is a name that identifies a value; the pointer points to the value, not to the name.

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