Pointer

[willia23]

I have pretty good grip on pointers but I think I missed something in my code:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

void pointerfunction(int* piPointer1, int* piPointer2);

int main()
{
	int pointer1;
	int pointer2;
	pointerfunction(&pointer1, &pointer2);
	cout << pointer1 << endl;
	system("PAUSE");
	return 0;
}

void pointerfunction(int* piPointer1, int* piPointer2)
{
	cout << "Enter 2 numbers" << endl;
	cin >> piPointer1 >> piPointer2;
}

And thanks for reading this. If you could tell me what is wrong that would be great.

[Bazzy]

At line 19: you cant set a value of a pointer, to change the value stored on the location pointed you should use *piPointer1 instead of piPointer1.

I think your function would be better if it takes arguments passed by reference instead of using pointers, try to see this:

int main()
{
	int numb1,numb2;
	referencefunction(numb1, numb2);
	cout << numb1 << endl;
	system("PAUSE");
	return 0;
}

void referencefunction(int& Ref1, int& Ref2)
{
	cout << "Enter 2 numbers" << endl;
	cin >> Ref1 >> Ref2;
}

[willia23]

thanks for the hep now only about 900 pages of book to go