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What is the use of void pointer?
Void Pointer is a General purpose pointer ,that does not have any data type associated with it and can store address of any type of variable. Declaration: void * pointer_name;
C program pointers to pointers examples?
Pointer to Pointer is a double pointer, denoted by (**). Pointer stores the address of the variable and pointer to pointer stores the address of a pointer variable and syntax can be given as int **ptr2ptr;
How do you save a pointer variable into another variable?
Assignment. Eg: void *p1, *p2; p2= p1;
What is generic pointer in C?
When a variable is declared as being a pointer to type void it is known as a generic pointer. Since you cannot have a variable of type void, the pointer will not point to any data and therefore cannot be dereferenced. It is still a pointer though, to use it you just have to cast it to another kind of pointer first. Hence the term Generic pointer.
What is void pointer and what are its uses?
Void pointer can hold the address of any kind of pointer. But we can't operate on void pointer
Why do you use a void pointer in a programme?
void is type of pointer that usually means that you can make it point to any data type. When you make a pointer point to somewhere its data type should match with the place where you want it to point. When you dont know the data type where it will point to then you can declare a void pointer and make it point to the data type it want.
What is pointer of pointer?
pointer is the variable that holds the address of another variable
Different types of pointers in c language?
... are usable. void pointer (generic pointer) : a special type of pointer which point to some data of no specific types. void *p; null pointer : a special type of pointer which point nowhere. it is usually used to check if a pointer is pointing to a null or free the pointer during deallocation of memory in dynamic memory allocation; it is define by using the predefine constant NULL int *p=NULL; wild pointer : uninitialized pointer. it hold a garbage value. i.e it is not pointing to any memory location yet. dangling pointer: pointer pointing to a destroyed variable. it usually happen during dynamic memory allocation when the object is destroyed but not free and the pointer is still pointing to the destroy object.
What kind of information is represented by a pointer variable?
It is variable. On most PCs it is either 32 or 64 bits. But it can be smaller on other systems. To find the size use sizeof(void*) .
Define pointer in C?
Pointer is a variable, A variable that stores the address of another variable. Size of a pointer is 2 bytes.
What is pointer why you use pointer?
Pointer is a variable that stores the address of another variable. Since pointer is also akind of variable, thus pointer itself will be stored at a different memory location.
How many types of pointers are there?
That depends on what you consider a type. A pointer variable simply stores a memory address or NULL so, strictly speaking, there is only one type of pointer. A pointer variable's type (int *, char *, void *, etc) determines the type that a pointer points to, not the type of the pointer itself. Whether a pointer points to a primitive type, a user-defined type, a function, another pointer or void, makes no difference to the pointer variable itself. It simply stores a memory address. How you treat that memory address is determined by the pointer variable's type. So, in that respect, there are as many types of pointer as there are types to point at; which would be infinite. The architecture determines the size of a pointer variable. On a 16-bit system, a pointer will occupy just 2 bytes, while on a 32-bit system it occupies 4 bytes and 8 bytes on a 64-bit system. Although these may be considered separate pointer types, you can't pick and choose which type you use. The size must be consistent for any given architecture, hence the prevalent use of the sizeof() operator to determine a variable's length at runtime.
