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[โ€“] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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?

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 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