‘&’ symbol has two meanings in C and C++.

• Address of Operator: returns address of a variable.
  • int a = 3;
  • printf(“%d”, a);
    • will return value of a: 3
  • printf(“%d”, &a);
    • will return address of variable a.

• Bit-wise Operator &: operates on bitlevel
  • Example:
  • int a = 13&4;
    • 13 = 1101
    • 4  =0100
    • 13&4 = 0100
    • a = 4