How pointer & and * and ** works in Golang?
The below program is curry of pointers. The value of intVar is equals to value of **pointerToPointerVar.
Example
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
var intVar int
var pointerVar *int
var pointerToPointerVar **int
intVar = 100
pointerVar = &intVar
pointerToPointerVar = &pointerVar
fmt.Println("\n")
fmt.Println("intVar:\t\t\t", intVar)
fmt.Println("pointerVar:\t\t", pointerVar)
fmt.Println("pointerToPointerVar:\t", pointerToPointerVar)
fmt.Println("\n")
fmt.Println("&intVar:\t\t", &intVar)
fmt.Println("&pointerVar:\t\t", &pointerVar)
fmt.Println("&pointerToPointerVar:\t", &pointerToPointerVar)
fmt.Println("\n")
fmt.Println("*pointerVar:\t\t", *pointerVar)
fmt.Println("*pointerToPointerVar:\t", *pointerToPointerVar)
fmt.Println("**pointerToPointerVar:\t", **pointerToPointerVar)
}
Output
intVar: 100
pointerVar: 0x1142214c
pointerToPointerVar: 0x114240e0
&intVar: 0x1142214c
&pointerVar: 0x114240e0
&pointerToPointerVar: 0x114240e8
*pointerVar: 100
*pointerToPointerVar: 0x1142214c
**pointerToPointerVar: 100
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