Why can’ t we treat the address of a variable like a string and store it in a string variable? Thereafter when we require the value we can pass that address into the indirection operator
Basic pointer doubt
Hey Girish!, there can be many arguments upon that, but if you see that a pointer on most machines is of 8 bytes!, even if you store it as a string, it will cost more space.
Now whenever you are referencing to a pointer’s value, you need actual hexadecimal value hence you cannot reference directly using string! So in all scenarios it is better to store address inside pointer variables.
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