Pointer troubles

[remmus]

Hello.I'm not very sure with pointers defining....
A pointer,normally,is defined this way:

type var=...;

type *p;

p=&var

Right?
But i saw somewhere the defining: *p=&var... whatt???is this correct?
And,at the functions arguments,the same:

type function(type *p){
.....
}

int main(){
type var;
function(&var);
}

WHY?....it hasn't got any sense...*p=&var??

[vlad from moscow]

This code

type var=...;

type *p;

p=&var;

in fact is equivalent to

type var=...;

type *p = &var;

So this code

function(&var);

can be imagined as

type function(type *p = &var );