Exam 9: Pointers

The statement: Has the same meaning as ________.

A pointer variable may be initialized with ________.

A pointer variable is designed to store ________.

The following statement:

When you pass a pointer as an argument to a function, you must ________.

To help prevent memory leaks from occurring in C++ 11, a ________ automatically deletes a chunk of dynamically allocated memory when the memory is no longer being used.

When you work with a dereferenced pointer, you are actually working with ________.

When the less than ( < )operator is used between two pointer variables, the expression is testing whether ________.

With pointer variables you can access, but you cannot modify, data in other variables.

In C++ 11, the nullptr key word was introduced to represent the address 0.

With pointer variables, you can ________ manipulate data stored in other variables.

What does the following statement do?

Dynamic memory allocation occurs ________.

The ________, also known as the address operator, returns the memory address of a variable.

Use the delete operator only on pointers that were ________.

A pointer can be used as a function argument, giving the function access to the original argument.

A function may return a pointer, but the programmer must ensure that the pointer ________.

An array name is a pointer constant because the address stored in it cannot be changed during runtime.

If a variable uses more than one byte of memory, for pointer purposes its address is ________.

Which of the following statements is not valid C++ code?