Depending on who you ask, pointers are either a blessing or a curse. Pointers provide a mechanism for directly accessing and modifying objects and code in memory. Pointers are used in many programming languages for manipulating character strings, passing parameters to functions, handling arrays of data, and creating linked lists and other complex data structures. While pointers provide you with a great deal of flexibility for managing memory and optimizing algorithms, there are disadvantages. Learning to use pointers is difficult for many programmers, and debugging pointer problems is challenging. Writer Bio
