Actually, its not even an address its a pointer. To get the address of an object you use the unary 'address of' operator '&'. His macro was #define address *

Actually, its not even an address its a pointer. To get the address of an object you use the unary 'address of' operator '&'. His macro was #define address * The * is a pointer. You can declare a variable of type pointer to T with as many indirections as you want. int * * * * * * foo is fine. But you also use it to deference your object. bob = * foo; You can't practically have a different name for each level of indirection to what ever the IS0 standard/Compiler limit is for * . Also you end up with nasty indirections like this. **(*((struct foo*)(*bob.x))).y Its nasty enough as it is without trying to name each pointer indirection.