Data structures and C(Self)

Question

In C language ,declaration of variables is done as follows:

<var type>  <name of var1> , <name of var2>;

For eg:

int a,b;

Then why can’t we use the declaration for pointers as follows to declare 2 interger pointers:

int * a,b;

instead we use : int *a, *b;

?

This might be a silly doubt but please help me out.

Comments

why dont you use int a,b=0; for assigning both a and b to 0.

You got that? Thats the way it works.