Where are addresses of pointers stored in C?

Question

I\'m learning C and currently learn about pointers. I understand the principle of storing the address of a byte in memory as a variable, which makes it possible to get the byte

Answer 1

The pointer is just a variable. The only difference between this and, e.g. a long variable is that we know that what is stored in a pointer variable is a memory address instead of an integer.

Therefore, you can find the address of a pointer variable by the same way as you can find the address of any other variable. If you store this address in some other variable, this one will also have an address, of course.

You confusion seems to originate from the fact that the pointer (i.e. a variable address) can in its turn be stored. But it does not have to be stored anywhere (you only do it when you for some reason need this address). From the point of view of your program, any variable is more or less a named memory location. So the "pointer to the variable" is a named memory location that contains the value that is supposed to "point" to another memory location, hence the name "pointer".