C multiple single line declarations
What happens when I declare say multiple variables on a single line? e.g.
int x, y, z;
All are ints. The question is what are y and z in the following statement?
int* x, y, z;
Are they all int pointers?
Answer
Only x is a pointer to int; y and z are regular ints.
This is one aspect of C declaration syntax that trips some people up. C uses the concept of a declarator, which introduces the name of the thing being declared along with additional type information not provided by the type specifier. In the declaration
int* x, y, z;
the declarators are *x, y, and z (it's an accident of C syntax that you can write either int* x or int *x, and this question is one of several reasons why I recommend using the second style). The int-ness of x, y, and z is specified by the type specifier int, while the pointer-ness of x is specified by the declarator *x (IOW, the expression *x has type int).
If you want all three objects to be pointers, you have two choices. You can either declare them as pointers explicitly:
int *x, *y, *z;
or you can create a typedef for an int pointer:
typedef int *iptr;
iptr x, y, z;
Just remember that when declaring a pointer, the * is part of the variable name, not the type.