No, I don't. If foo is a (storage of) pointer to something, to get that something from memory I use dereference operator `* so *foo = 'a'; will write value

No, I don't. If foo is a (storage of) pointer to something, to get that something from memory I use dereference operator `* so *foo = 'a'; will write value of 'a' into memory at address that is in foo. type* foo; is declaration and *foo is dereferencing.