[PLUG] Anyone Experienced with C Pointers?

[Ron Guilmet <ronpguilmet@gmail.com>]

I have been working with writing a device driver for my HP laptop. The
wireless doesn't work well. I think it is an antenna selection issue.
The laptop any distro shows about 10% on the wifi even when you are 10
feet away. 

That said, I've been refreshing myself with C. Pointers is one of those
areas that seem to give everyone a hard road to hoe. Sometimes a high
overview helps. I wanted to present what my understanding is, and I was
hoping someone could elaborate on it.

My understanding of pointer use is the following. I understand there
are different sections of memory. A section for the code, a section for
the running app called the stack, and then your free or available
memory called the heap. I understand that if the running program needs
more memory, it has to access the heap, and the heap can only be
addressed by memory addresses. Does that sound about right?

Rom

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