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void * (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago by sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] rhpp@programming.dev 98 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Actually void* just points to anything, with no regard to the type of that thing. Pointing to the void is more accurately described by NULL pointer.

[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 38 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fair, though I guess my interpretation was that void* is kind of like a black hole in that anything can fall into it in an unsettling way that loses information about what it was?

[–] Traister101 10 points 6 months ago

It erases the type of what your pointing at. All you have is a memory location, in contrast to int* which is a memory location of an int

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