I noticed some people use the following notation for declaring pointer variables.
(a) char* p;
instead of
(b) char *p;
I use (b). What is the rational behind the notation (a)? Notation (b) makes more sense to me because character pointer is not a type itself. Instead the type is character and the variable may be a pointer to the character.
char* c;
This looks like there is a type char* and the variable c is of that type. But in fact the type is char and *c (the memory location pointed by c) is of that type (char). If you declare multiple variables at once this distinction becomes obvious.
char* c, *d;
This looks weird. Both c and d are same kind of pointers that point to a character. In this since the next one looks more natural.
char *c, *d;