I recommend anyone saying that pointers are simple, just integer memory locations, to read this article: https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2018/07/24/pointers-and-bytes

I recommend anyone saying that pointers are simple, just integer memory locations, to read this article: https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2018/07/24/pointers-and-bytes.html https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2018/07/24/pointers-and-bytes.html The fact that in C pointers point to specifically objects and not just simply to a random place in memory makes all the difference and is source of oh so many bugs