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No - not in that sense, really. The *words is part of the definition of the variable words, indicating that it's a pointer. That's part of its type.
When you use a * in a dereferencing expression, then it's referring to the location of the pointer variable.
(A * can also mean an arithmetic multiplication. It's context dependant.)
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No - not in that sense, really. The *words is part of the definition of the variable words, indicating that it's a pointer. That's part of its type.
When you use a * in a dereferencing expression, then it's referring to the location of the pointer variable.
(A * can also mean an arithmetic multiplication. It's context dependant.)