The same reasoning applies to function declarations returning pointers: int *f(void); // "*f()" returns "int" and "f()" returns "int *" My habit is to alw

The same reasoning applies to function declarations returning pointers: int *f(void); // "*f()" returns "int" and "f()" returns "int *" My habit is to always put a space between the type and the asterisk, regardless of whether there is an identifier: sizeof(int *); x = (char *) y;