Question 4.2

I'm trying to declare a pointer and allocate some space for it, but it's not working. What's wrong with this code?

char *p;
*p = malloc(10);

The pointer you declared is p, not *p. To make a pointer point somewhere, you just use the name of the pointer:

	p = malloc(10);

It's when you're manipulating the pointed-to memory that you use * as an indirection operator:

	*p = 'H';