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Which of the following gives the memory address of a variable pointed to by pointer a?
A. a;
B. *a;
C. &a;
D. address(a);

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"*" operator is used for accessing the content of the pointer.

It is also called as the dereferencing operator.
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Answer is A.

a would give the address of the variable pointed to by the pointer.

*a would fetch the value of that address location.
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