contrasting pointers from non-pointers

[naim1]

Hi All,

This is a general elementary level C question, but somehow i am stuckup at its logical understanding. hopefully i can get good know-how on it from the forum.

My question is that if we say that a pointer type variable is a variable whose address is known to us somehow. So we access that variable by using its address that is saved at some other location in the memory.

Now assuming that my above understanding is correct for a pointer type variable, then i want to know how would we access some variable which is just a simple int type or long type etc... and we dont know its addess in the memory?

Any help would be great.

-naim1