pointer increment

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <484 at eagle.wesleyan.edu>, dkonerding at eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>         Now, say I make ptr=1000 or hex 3e8.  I want to add one to the ptr, to
> make it point to 1001, or hex 3e9.  Every time I do a ptr=ptr+1, it becomes
> 3ec.  How can I simply increment ptr by one?

By declaring the pointer as char * ptr;

an increment of a pointer moves the pointer to the next occurance of the
item to which it points to.  In your case I am assuming an integer is 4
bytes and the compiler correctly moved the pointer to point to the next
integer that ptr may point to.  This goes the same for structures.