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What do you mean by assigning to a pointer? You can only assign a pointer value to a pointer variable and you need to get that pointer from & IIUC.

• masklinn 6y ago
  > What do you mean by assigning to a pointer? *x = y
  • kevincox 6y ago
    I don't think that does because IIUC you are copying the bits of y to x. So I guess semantically y has escaped but you aren't doing a new heap allocation, you are reusing the memory of x.