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[QUOTE="Arthur J. O'Dwyer, post: 1713466"]
The simplest way out of this dilemma, in the context of the C
programming language (which is always the context in this newsgroup),
is to reserve the use of the word "pointer" for the C language's
pointers, and to use the English term "address" for what you seem
to be calling a "pointer."  Thus:

'main' calls the function 'foo' with an argument which is a pointer
to an 'int'.
  'main' calls 'foo' with a pointer to 'int'.
  'main' calls 'foo' with a pointer which holds the address of the
array 'bar'.
  'bar' is an array[100] of 'int'.
  The address of 'bar' is also the address of the first element of 'bar'.
  The expression 'bar' decays to a pointer to the first element of 'bar'.
  All pointer values have associated types.
  Addresses do not have types.
  The unary '&' operator yields a pointer to the operand object.
  The unary '&' operator yields the address of the operand object
as a value of type "pointer to quux."

All clear, no?

-Arthur
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