The indirection operator (*) returns the value stored in the address that the operand contains. The expression is itself an lvalue.The indirection and address-of operators are inverses of one another. The result of *&x is x.

Yes, you are correct. The indirection operator (*) in C++ is used to access the value at a certain memory location. If you have a pointer variable, you can use the indirection operator to get the value that the pointer is pointing to.

On the other hand, the address-of operator (&) is used to get the memory address of a variable.

As you mentioned, these two operators are inverses of each other. If you have a variable x, and you get the address of x using the address-of operator (&x), and then you use the indirection operator on that address (*&x), you will get back the original variable x.

This is because the address-of operator gives you the address where the variable is stored, and the indirection operator gives you the value stored at a certain address. So when you use them together like this, they cancel each other out and you get back the original variable.