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[–] rhpp 98 points 6 months ago (9 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

So, when I want the void to point back at me, do I have to loop over void* or over NULL?
And how many iterations?

[–] sus 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

as many iterations as it takes

void* x = &x;
char* ptr = (char*)&x;

while (1) {
    printf("%d\n", (unsigned int)*ptr);
    ptr--;
}
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