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  Q: Why do pointers have a fixed size independent of the pointed type?

  The space occupied by normal variables (int, float, double, char) obeys the type rule: int occupies 4 bytes, float occupies 4 bytes, double occupies 8 bytes etc. Why pointers of different types have…

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  asked 7 years, 4 months ago Natã Marques 81