Struct member only accessible through pointer to struct.

[Markus]

Why can I only access a struct member through a pointer to said struct? I thought you were able to access a pointer's members via the dot notation?

person mark;
person *ptr_mark;
ptr_mark->age = 1;
mark.age = 1; /** 'age' undeclared?

[weaknessforcats]

Works for me.

There is something you aren't telling me.

[Markus]

What the chuff. I don't understand why it didn't work before, but it works now.

Sorry!

[Ectara]

In the example, the pointer is not initialized, nor is it pointing to the address of the structer declared above it. Though, by your follow-up response, I assume that this isn't an actual code snippet from your project. But otherwise, yeah, lines 3 and 4 would do the same thing if the pointer pointed to the address of the structure.