👉 In computer science, a pointer is an object that points to another object in memory. It can be used to access and modify data stored in the memory location pointed by the pointer. A pointer is often denoted by a small "x" or a single character like a hash symbol (#), which indicates that the object being pointed to has a value.
For example, consider the following code:
```c
int
p = new int;
```
In this case, `p` is a