void and void pointer

[Humble]

Lets see whats the size of void and void pointer.

[hchiramm@humbles-lap forblog]$ cat voidp.c
#include
int main()
{
int x = 5;
void *pv = &x;

printf (“sizeof(void) :%d \t sizeof (void pointer) :%d \n New address %p \n” , sizeof(void) ,sizeof(pv), pv );
pv = pv + 1;
printf (“New address %p \n” , pv );
}

[hchiramm@humbles-lap forblog]$ ./voidp
sizeof(void) :1 sizeof (void pointer) :8
New address 0x7fff41850a44
New address 0x7fff41850a45
[hchiramm@humbles-lap forblog]$

As shown above , void size has been printed as “1” and Void pointer size has been printed as “8” in my system.
NOTE: In some compilers, the arithmetic operation on void pointer will result in “SYNTAX ERROR” ..

VOID POINTER

Any pointer can be assigned to a void pointer. However void pointers are for data pointers and not for function pointers. void pointer can then be cast back to its original pointer type to get the original pointer value intact.

For ex:

int x;
int *mi = &x;
// [1]
void *vp;
vp = mi;
mi = (int *)vp
// [2]

at [1] and [2], the value of “mi” will be same.

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