[Solved] What does *a = *b mean in C? [closed]

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*a = *b;

The above statement will simply do this: value(a) <– value(b) (i.e. pointer a will contain value ‘d’ ).

printf("%x\n", a);

This will print the pointer’s address(a) in hexadecimal. However, always use the "%p" format identifier to print the addresses. "%x" is used to print the values in hexadecimal format.

printf("%x\n", *a);

Since the value(a) is ‘d’ whose ASCII value is 100 (hundred in decimal).
Thus "%x" will print the hexadecimal value of 100 which is 64. Therefore this statement will print 64.

No the above statement will not print the pointer’s address(b).

However, pointer’s address(b) can be printed by following statement:

 printf("%p", b);

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