Illegal Arithmetic Operations : With Pointer

One can perform different arithmetic operations on Pointer such as increment,decrement but still we have some more arithmetic operations that cannot be performed on pointer -

1. Addition of two addresses.
2. Multiplying two addresses.
3. Division of two addresses.
4. Modulo operation on pointer.
5. Cannot perform bitwise AND,OR,XOR operations on pointer.
6. Cannot perform NOT operation or negation operation.

1. Addition of Two Pointers :

#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
int var = 10;
int *ptr1 = &i;
int *ptr2 = (int *)2000;
printf("%d",ptr1+ptr2);
return 0;
}

Output :

Compile Error

2. Multiplication of Pointer and number :

#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
int var = 10;
int *ptr1 = &i;
int *ptr2 = (int *)2000;
printf("%d",ptr1*var);
return 0;
}

Output :

Compile Error

3. Multiplication of Two Pointers :

#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
int var = 10;
int *ptr1 = &i;
int *ptr2 = (int *)2000;
printf("%d",ptr1*ptr2);
return 0;
}

Output :

Compile Error

Similarly we cannot perform following operations -

4. Modulo Operation

int *ptr1 = (int *)1000;
int *ptr2 = (int *)2000;
int var = ptr2 % ptr1;

5. Division of pointer

#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
int *ptr1,*ptr2;
ptr1 = (int *)1000;
ptr2 = ptr1/4;
return(0);
}

Output :

6.Cannot perform bitwise OR

#include<stdio.h>
int main(){
int i=5,j=10;
int *p=&i;
int *q=&j;
printf("%d",p|q);
return 0;
}

7.Negation Operation on Pointer

#include<stdio.h>
int main(){
int i=5;
int *ptr=&i;
printf("%d",~ptr);
return 0;
}

Summary at a glance :

Address + Address = Illegal
Address * Address = Illegal
Address / Address = Illegal
Address % Address = Illegal
Address & Address = Illegal
Address | Address = Illegal
Address ^ Address = Illegal
~Address          = Illegal