Klnsfw ,

For God sake, be consistent. It's either int*, int**, void* or int *, int **, void *

xia ,

There are no ints in the void, only... death...

Olgratin_Magmatoe ,

Void star labs/Zach Freedman moment

rhpp ,

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 ,

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 ,

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

frezik ,

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

marcos ,

But we need dynamic types!

...hold my beer...

riodoro1 ,

Result: one of the most if not the most popular programming languages.

neo ,

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?

programmer_belch ,
@programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

For the void to point back at you just dereference the NULL pointer

sus ,

as many iterations as it takes

void* x = &x;
char* ptr = (char*)&x;

while (1) {
    printf("%d\n", (unsigned int)*ptr);
    ptr--;
}
mox ,

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.)

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