pointer incrementation and assignment

Question

In the following two lines in C:

int* a = (int *)calloc(automata_size, sizeof(int));

int* b = (a++);

I found that a and b share the same addre

Answer 1

So my advice is google post-increment and pre-increment. Pre-increment (++a) is:

b = ++a;

and is the same as:

a = a + 1;
b = a;

Where as post-increment:

b = a++;

is the same as

b = a;
a = a + 1;

this applies to pointers as well as integers.