See, it is confusing, because the code doesn't compute a power. It's a multiplication with the value pointed to by int_ptr, e.g. rewritten to make more sense:

See, it is confusing, because the code doesn't compute a power. It's a multiplication with the value pointed to by int_ptr, e.g. rewritten to make more sense: int a = 3 * (*int_ptr); ...or in Odin it would look like this (I think, haven't used Odin all that much yet): a := 3 * int_ptr^