What is the different between int *x and int * x?

[selenium]

I thought int * x is for declaring a pointer, but what does the int *b, and *c do?

// pointer to classes example
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

class CRectangle {
    int width, height;
  public:
    void set_values (int, int);
    int area (void) {return (width * height);}
};

void CRectangle::set_values (int a, int b) {
  width = a;
  height = b;
}

int main () {
  CRectangle a, *b, *c;
  CRectangle * d = new CRectangle[2];
  b= new CRectangle;
  c= &a;
  a.set_values (1,2);
  b->set_values (3,4);
  d->set_values (5,6);
  d[1].set_values (7,8);
  cout << "a area: " << a.area() << endl;
  cout << "*b area: " << b->area() << endl;
  cout << "*c area: " << c->area() << endl;
  cout << "d[0] area: " << d[0].area() << endl;
  cout << "d[1] area: " << d[1].area() << endl;
  delete[] d;
  delete b;
  return 0;
}

[maeriden]

When you declare a variable the asterisk means that they are pointers
When you use a pointer the asterisk means that you want to use the content of the pointer

int *b, *c; are two pointers to int

[Athar]

They declare pointers.

[selenium]

so both int * X and int *X are the same?

[cire]

And so is int* X.

[selenium]

Ok thanks guys.