Actually, its not even an address its a pointer.

To get the address of an object you use the unary 'address of' operator '&'.

His macro was #define address *

The * is a pointer. You can declare a variable of type pointer to T with as many indirections as you want. int * * * * * * foo is fine. But you also use it to deference your object. bob = * foo;

You can't practically have a different name for each level of indirection to what ever the IS0 standard/Compiler limit is for * .

Also you end up with nasty indirections like this.

    **(*((struct foo*)(*bob.x))).y

Its nasty enough as it is without trying to name each pointer indirection.

You know there'll be that one person who complains about it not supporting something nested like 20 pointers deep...