pointer != address Unless there is no difference between a pointer and an address, in a register you can store an address, maybe the address of a pointer (and

pointer != address Unless there is no difference between a pointer and an address, in a register you can store an address, maybe the address of a pointer (and so on). But you can be right if we talk about some registers that always point to something, like IP (PC). But we enter into a philosophic area. Edit: Yes, I know, you can also treat a register as a pointer. Should we leave it to the Wikipedia definition? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer_(computer_programming) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer_(computer_programming)