8.1: Introduction

As you may recall from earlier course work, every byte of memory in a computer system is identified by a unique address. C works directly with addresses and this is one reason why it can be used to create efficient and powerful code. You can obtain the address of virtually any variable or data item using the “address of” operator, &. One exception to this is the register class variable. This is because CPU’s registers don’t have an address like normal memory. Also, as functions are just memory locations filled with microprocessor/microcontroller op-codes, C also makes it possible to obtain the starting address of functions.

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