• tunetardis@lemmy.ca
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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