• rhpp@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    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.

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      5 months ago

      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?

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        5 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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      5 months ago

      “Allow me to combine the worst feature of strong typing with the worst feature of dynamic typing”.

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      5 months ago

      So, when I want the void to point back at me, do I have to loop over void* or over NULL?
      And how many iterations?

    • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
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      5 months ago

      In other words, void refers to the typing of the pointer, not a particular value that might be present at its target.

      (But I can see how someone might find it confusing.)