[amateurrobotguy]

So i have to say that my array of buttons is going to be holding addresses by declaring it like this:

int (*)joystickbuttons[8] = {&p1_sw_trig, &p1_sw_top, &pl_sw_aux1, &p1_sw_aux2, &p2_sw_trig, &p2_sw_top, &p2_sw_aux1, &p2_sw_aux2};

And thus the * in the declaration indicates that the variable is "special" in that it will indeed be holiding addresses and not just numbers and crap.

And the 2nd half of the above code:

if ((*)joystickbuttons[arrayindexer[1]] == 1)

Will my above 2 pieces of code work?

I don't get some of your example:

void idouble(int * input){  Input the address and convert it to the data "input"
   *input += input ; I don't get the use of *input
}

void main(){
    int x ;
    x = 5 ;
    idouble(&x) ;  Call the above function giving it an address as a parameter
    print(x); I don't get how the idouble() returns x
}