What is indirection?

If you declare a variable, its name is a direct reference to its value. If you have a pointer to a variable, or any other object in memory, you have an indirect reference to its value.

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Mar 28th, 2012

Indirection operator (denoted by *) is a unary operator which include pointer variables. It operates on a pointer variable,and returns a value equivalent to the value at the pointer address.
Example:
x = *a;
The indirection operator used in this example is to access the int value at the address stored in a and the value is assigned to the integer variable x.