Ask HN: What is the best way to understand Pointers and memory organization in C?

Posted by diptanu on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @03:15AM
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ASK HN: What is the best way to understand Pointers and memory organization in C?

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best way to understand Pointers and m... by jamess on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @04:35AM (#433446)

Read K&R, a large part of the book is given over to writing a simple allocator. There really isn't an awful lot to understand if you're treating the hardware as a black box.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best way to understand Pointers and m... by cperciva on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @03:39AM (#433410)

Learn assembly language.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best way to understand Pointers and m... by eru on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @04:40AM (#433451)

May I humbly suggest choosing Redcode as your first assembly language. It's easy to learn and gives you something to do in the Core Wars.

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