Introduction

Up until this point, we’ve worked with various pointer types, such as:

Pointers to int
Pointers to float
Pointers to char
Pointers to custom data types, defined using structures

One limiting factor was that different pointer types are not often compatible. For example, an int pointer can’t usually point to a floating point number. This fact introduces an interesting problem. The problem is what happens when we want to write a function that doesn’t depend on the data type, as the processing is identical. We’d have to create multiple almost identical functions, where the only difference is the data type of the arguments.

For example, let’s look at the memcpy function. Its purpose is to copy ...

Introduction

Stack and Local Memory

Passing Arguments to Functions

Pointer Arithmetic Basics

Pointers and Arrays

Pointers and Strings

Pointers and Functions

Write a Shell in C

Complex Pointer Declarations

Assessment 1

Heap and Dynamic Memory

Structures

Practicing Everything with Linked Lists

Assessment 2

Genericity Using Void Pointers

Advanced Memory Manipulation

Project Prep: Binary Search Trees

Efficiently Processing Temperature Samples

Efficient Dictionary

Efficiently Processing Employee Records

Conclusion

void Pointers Definition

Introduction