Question:
Or at least what it's called to google about it.
Answer:
Indirect operator.
The meaning is something like this – for example, in a structure / class like
struct T {
int t;
...
you are accessing the field (member) t of the object T obj as
obj.t
If you have a pointer to a T* ptr object, then you access the field of the object pointed to by ptr as
(*ptr).t
or – look carefully 🙂 – how to
ptr->t
Here's exactly what it is…