What is pointer to pointer?

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Pointer is a variable that stores value of address of a variable. Since pointer itself is a variable,it is allocated a memory location.

Pointer to pointer is a pointer which points to the address of a pointer. In other words a pointer to pointer has the address of address of a variable.

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