• rhpp@programming.dev
    5·
    9 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.

    • frezik@midwest.social
      2·
      9 months ago

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

    • tunetardis@lemmy.ca
      2·
      9 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?

    • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      9 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.)