[ts-7000] Re: malloc()

["Phil" <>]

Hi Jason,

No, pointers always have types, or more correctly, pointers *are* 
types. But I guess to answer your question, there are many different 
pointer types. One of the reasons (among many) that this has to be the 
case is as follows..


char        *charPtr;
short int   *intPtr;

charPtr = (char *) 123;
intPtr  = (short int *) 123;

// At this point both variable are holding the value 123.

charPtr++;
intPtr++;

// Now charPtr == 124 *but* intPtr == 125


But there are various other reasons. Hope this helps.

Cheers
Phil


--- In  Jason Stahls <> wrote:
>
> Ok, I had this working for a while then started mucking and broke it 
> again.  Question is, why are you casting the returns to char *, I've 
> always understood that a pointer is a pointer, it has no type, am I 
wrong?
> 
> Jason





 
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