I haven't found any mention of this anywhere. There is a dereference operator in a function name like this:
char *func()
{
//code
}
what is the purpose of that * operator?
You are not actually dereferencing anything, the *
is part of the return type.
The compiler doesn't really care about where you place the *
, so your code is equivalent to writing
char* func() { }
In other words it means that func() returns a char pointer.