What is Generic pointer? What is the purpose of Generic
pointer? Where it is used?
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Answer / veluri.haritha
It is a pointer to hold the address of variable of any data
type.it can be declared using void data type .It is used in
memory allocation functions etc.....
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Answer / kiran kumar yakkala
generic pointer- generally "void" used for generic
no specification of data type
if u dont know the data type specification at the time
of any funciton or datatype declaration, generally go for
generaic(void) .
but it needs a "type conversion" for further usage
mind that "void" pointer never be incremented or
decremented, after type conversion only u should go for
that.
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Answer / rambabu
generic pointer is a pointer and it accept any data
type.suppose u give int as the our data type but u give
float as the value to the program then it will accept
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