635

submitted 5 months ago by sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

13 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] rhpp@programming.dev 98 points 5 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.

[-] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 38 points 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?