pointer/struct question.

Hello group,



I was looking at the following code and one thing I don't know how to explain to myself is why the object derived frm the structure works as a pointer?
because the ptrs is not declared as a pointer but as an instance of the struct.

I haven't done C programming for a long time so I'm doing a fast review.

Thanks for your help.
ak



      #include <stdio.h>
      main()   /* Illustrating structures containing pointers */
      {
            struct  int_pointers {  int  *ptr1, *ptr2;  };
            struct int_pointers  ptrs;
            int  i1 = 154, i2;

            ptrs.ptr1 =  &i1;
            ptrs.ptr2 =  &i2;
            *ptrs.ptr2 =  -97;
            printf("i1 = %d, *ptrs.ptr1 = %d\n", i1, *ptrs.ptr1);
            printf("i2 = %d, *ptrs.ptr2 = %d\n", i2, *ptrs.ptr2);
      }