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

Let's say the value of a pointer (the address of a byte in memory) is stored somewhere in memory

The address of a byte that you allocated, say like this

char ch = 'a';

is referenced by the compiler in the symbol table with the right offset. At run time, the instructions generated by the compiler will use this offset for moving it to from the primary memory to a register for some operation on it.

A pointer, in the sense you're asking, is not stored anywhere, it's just a type when you refer to a variable's address, unless you explicitly create a pointer variable to store it like this

&ch;             // address of ch not stored anywhere
char *p = &ch;   // now the address of ch is stored in p

Thus there's no recursion concept here.