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Old 07-25-2010
Pointer Arithmetic In C

I have a fundamental question on C pointer arithmetry..

Suppose i have a c string pointer already pointing to a valid location, Can I just do a
Code:
charptr = charptr +1;

to get to the next location, irregardless if my program is 32 or 64 bits?

or should i do it this way:
Code:
charptr = charptr + sizeof(charptr);

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Old 07-25-2010
It doesn't matter whether your program is 64 or 32 bits, the C compiler does pointer arithmetic the same way in either.

It even handles the size for you, so that if you have a pointer to, say, integers, ptr++ will move it ahead 4 bytes to the next integer for you.
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