Really dumb pointer question

I''ve never had problems with pointers before, but for some dumb reason this doesn''t work, and I''m a little tired of it. Here''s what I have, in an easy to read example. objects *gameObj[MAX_OBJ]; objects *selected; void foo() { selected = NULL; select(selected); } void select(objects * selected) { for (int i = 0; i < MAX_OBJ; i++) { if (obj_selected) selected = gameObj; } } Basically I want selected to point to the selected object, whichever it is. Before calling select() selected is NULL, inside select(), selected is not NULL, but after returning selected is NULL again. Now if I understand my pointers, when selected points to the smae location, unless I make gameObj[i] NULL, it should point to that object always. It''s probably one dumb thing I''m missing, but for the life of me, I can''t figure out what it is. Thanks