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> You can't have a reference (aka pointer) pointing to a variable.

What?

    int a;
    int * p = &a;

?

[ramchip]

That's a pointer to an integer.

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Yes. You claimed you can't have pointers to a variable. I showed how to have a pointer to a variable of type integer.

[ramchip]

If you dereference it you get back an integer, not a variable. A variable is a name that identifies a value; the pointer points to the value, not to the name.