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<font style="color:blue;">char</font>* pc = (<font style="color:blue;">char</font>*)malloc(<font style="color:blue;">sizeof</font>(<font style="color:blue;">char</font>));     <font style="color:green;">// my pointer (something like 0x0A78DQ43)</font>
*pc = 'a';                                  <font style="color:green;">// dereferenced pointer (acsii code for 'a' caracter)</font>

 
 pc : simple pointer (cointaining an address)
*pc : dereferenced pointer (value at the pointed address)

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"The pointy end goes in the other man." - Antonio Banderas (Zorro, 1998)

p = *phe->h_addr_list;

p = *phe->h_addr;

// Name resolution
struct hostent *hp;
unsigned int addr;
struct sockaddr_in name_ip;
 
// Make sure that strDns is not already an IP Address.	
if(inet_addr(strDns) == INADDR_NONE)
	hp = gethostbyname(strDns);
else
{
	addr = inet_addr(strDns);
	hp = gethostbyaddr((char *)&addr, sizeof(addr), AF_INET);
}
 
if(hp == NULL)
{
	// Handle the error here..
}
 	
name_ip.sin_addr.s_addr = *((unsigned long*)hp->h_addr);
name_ip.sin_family = AF_INET;
name_ip.sin_port = htons(iPort);
 
// Assign strSocketIP to the IP address...
CString strSocketIP = inet_ntoa(name_ip.sin_addr);