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On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 19:51:58 -0000 (UTC)
Oliver Schmidt <ol.sc@web.de> wrote:

> No, the syntax above isn't for assigning a value to a pointer. It's
> for assigning a value to the address the pointer points to.

OMG, it's been too long since I've written C code. Of, course you're
right and I knew that. The overloading of the * operator in one place
to define a pointer and in another place, the exact opposite, to access
the data pointed to by a pointer, has always perplexed me.