Problem in assigning value to pointer in C-program

[Juany]

Hello friends,
I have written following code in C-language. In that code I have problem in assigning value to pointer in C-program. Can anyone tell what is the problem in my code. For your information I have written code below:

int q = 5; 
int *ptrs; 
*ptrs = &q;

[absolute55]

Hey you have written wrong code and that's why are getting problem in your program. You have written *ptrs = &q; instead of ptrs = &q and that's why your program is not running.

Just use following code in your program.

int q = 5; 
int *ptrs;
ptrs = &q;

[Reegan]

Your code is wrong and that's why you are getting such type of problem. In your code ptrs is not initialized properly. As per my information assigning to *ptrs creates a memory violation. You don't have permission to assign an int*q to an int. You have to use ptrs = &q to fix this problem. After this you can do *ptrs = 7;

[opaper]

From your code it seems that ptrs is pointed to the memory address that has 5 stored in it. In this case you have to write following code to fix this problem.

int q = 5; // I have create an int which hold 5
int *ptrs; //I have create a pointer that can point to an int
ptrs = &q;

[MindSpace]

You have written wrong code and that's why you are getting such type of problem. I will tell where you have written wrong code. Look at following code:

*ptrs = &q;

In above code *ptrs dereferences the pointer it means that *ptrs assigns something into the memory slot to which ptrs is pointing. But ptrs has not been initialized and for this reason it points to some unknown location in memory.

[Modifier]

A pointer in C-language is usually reffered as an address. Just think that pointer as an address label, and the value as the actual house. For example:

int *ptrs; // this declares a pointer to an int

In above code ptrs is essentially a memory address.

int k = 9; // this create a local int.

Above code Declares an integer on the stack and sets the value of it to 9.
In above manner you have to write following code to fix this problem.

int q = 5; 
int *ptrs; 
ptrs = &q;