Incrementing pointer not working

Question

I’m trying to increment pointer. I was sure that it is similar to do i+=1 , but I’m getting adress.

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Answer 1

If you want your output to be "43", than you have to change *a++; to (*a)++;.

But other than for testing and learning, code like yours is more of a "C thing" than a "C++ thing". C++ offers another approach to referencing data and operating on it, through what the language calls “references”.

int i=42;
int &a=i;  // ‘a’ is a reference to ‘i’
a++;
assert(i==43);  // Assertion will not fail

References are especially useful for passing arguments to functions, without the risk of having null or displaced pointers.

Answer 2

++ has a higher operator precedence than the pointer dereference operator *.

So what *a++ does is to return the value of i (the old value of *a) before incrementing the pointer value.

After that expression has been evaluated, a now points to something other than the address of i, and the behaviour of a subsequent *a is undefined.

If you want to increment i via the pointer, then use (*a)++;

Answer 3

What does "I'm getting adress" mean?

Have you checked out order of operations?

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/operator_precedence

++-postfix is a higher precedence than *-dereference - hence:

*a++;

is really:

*(a++);

and not:

(*a)++;

... as you probably meant. Which is IMHO why I always recommend erring on the side of too many parentheses rather than too few. Be explicit as to what you mean :)

Answer 4

Your code works fine till you reach the line

*a++;

As you know, C++ compiler will break this code of line as

*a = *(a+1);

That is, it will first increment address value of a and then assign the value to *a. But if you do,

*(a)++;

then you will get correct output, that is, 43.

For output- http://ideone.com/QFBjTZ

Answer 5

You have used *a++;

As your increment operator ++ has higher precedence than your pointer *, what actually is happening is that your pointer address is being incremented. So the new *a has no defined value and hence it will give an undefined value *a++; is the equivalent of a++;

To fix this you can use parentheses (*a)++; or simply us pre increment operator ++*a;