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void Pointers

A void pointer, declared as void *, can point to any data type but cannot be dereferenced directly, since the compiler has no type information about what it points to. It is typically cast to a specific pointer type before use, and appears often in generic functions like malloc, which returns void * because it has no knowledge of what type of data will be stored there. This flexibility comes at the cost of losing type safety until the cast happens.

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• @article@void pointer in C
• @video@Understanding the Void Pointers