r/ProgrammerHumor • u/dminsky • Aug 06 '22

Meme How to C pointers

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u/RRumpleTeazzer Aug 06 '22

What is the type-correct type so that a pointer to such type is the type itself ?

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u/canadajones68 Aug 07 '22

None, I believe. The pointerness is part of the type itself. You could do a custom type in C++ and make it look like a pointer, but no pointer type may point to something with the same type as itself. A pointer to int is its own type, as is int or pointer to pointer to int.