A nitpick to your nitpick: they said "memory location". And yes, a pointer always points to a memory location. Notwithstanding that each particular region of memory locations could be mapped either to real physical memory or any other assortment of hardware.
A nitpick to your nitpick: they said "memory location". And yes, a pointer always points to a memory location. Notwithstanding that each particular region of memory locations could be mapped either to real physical memory or any other assortment of hardware.