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Why char stores a single character and the pointer points to its value in memory, so it shouldn’t have just one character? Example:
char *str = "Ola";
Why str does not store only one character?
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The question starts from a wrong premise. It is not storing a string in a pointer of char.
The character string is being stored in a static area of memory, usually the data segment. str is actually storing a pointer to char (4 or 8 bytes according to the architecture), so obviously an address. What address is that? The address where the string starts in the static memory area.
Remembering that all string in C has an extra ending character indicating its end. In this example there are 4 bytes in the static area.
Makes sense now?
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