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Written by fops on 2025-01-16 at 19:41

oh my god right only today i learned that if you increment a pointer in C it actually increments the address by the type's size and not by 1 my whole life has been a lie

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Written by fops on 2025-01-16 at 19:41

tbh i;ve only really used pointer arithmetic on char* sooo

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Written by /var/service/sudo200/run on 2025-01-16 at 19:43

@chfour

Welcome to the C elite community /jk

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Written by Amber (deilannist) on 2025-01-16 at 19:43

@chfour@wetdry.world im never using a program from you again

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Written by Amber (deilannist) on 2025-01-16 at 19:45

@chfour@wetdry.world a 32 bit integer is 4 bytes. if it incremented it by one... instead of pointing to the starting address you'll be in the middle of the integer... that's not very useful ​:blobcatgooglynotlikethis:​

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Written by fops on 2025-01-16 at 20:20

@puppygirlhornypost2 i know i just thought since it's an address naturally it'd behave like a number lol

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Written by fops on 2025-01-16 at 20:20

@puppygirlhornypost2 Good news: ive never written anything worthwhile

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Written by not good jsdev 🏳️‍⚧️ on 2025-01-16 at 19:53

@chfour 'c doesnt have memory safety features' well what about This...

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Written by fops on 2025-01-16 at 20:20

@mothcompute CHECKMATE w*ke "RUST" users !!!

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Written by Alexander Knochel on 2025-01-31 at 07:16

@chfour That makes sense considering integer arrays etc. work the way they do, I've never questioned it I guess, but it would explain why casting pointers is something one does....

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