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[-] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 year 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?

[-] Traister101@lemmy.today 10 points 1 year 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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