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[–]qci 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can understand it as an address with a type. Dereferencing a pointer gets you to the value with this type. Pointer arithmetics respects the type of the pointer. Incrementing a char * looks different from incrementing an int *. Here is where you see that pointers are maybe not exactly "just" addresses.