May 17, 2025 · The default mouse pointers and cursors included with Windows are located in the C:\Windows\Cursors folder. This tutorial will show you how to change pointer size and color, change …

Closed 3 years ago. Is the size of a pointer the same as the size as the type it's pointing to, or do pointers always have a fixed size? For example...

Apr 4, 2020 · What is meant by the size of a pointer? Shouldn't the size of pointer depend on the type? Most of the sources say the size of a pointer if 4 or 8 bytes. I need some clarity on this claim.

The size of a pointer to an int will always be, by definition, sizeof (int *), to a char sizeof (char *) etc. Relying on any other assumption is a bad idea for portability.

May 19, 2019 · On some architectures, not all pointers are the same size. Clearly two different sizes can't both be equal to the same "architecture size". PIC typically has 8 bit data pointer with 14 bit …

Apr 20, 2014 · A pointer is a high-level language construct; in theory it could be any width at all. A memory address, on the other hand, is a physical construct.

I am little bit confused about pointers and how many bytes they take up. In my textbook it first says that pointers on 16 bit systems take up 2 bytes, 32 bit systems 4 bytes, 64 bit system 8 bytes ...

Nov 28, 2009 · When the specifics of your application area call for an array of specific fixed size (array size is a compile-time constant), the only proper way to pass such an array to a function is by using a …

Mar 18, 2019 · This is because the pointer itself does not carry information about the size of the array it is pointing to. If you need to determine the length of the array pointed to by an int* pointer, you need …

Aug 30, 2023 · Most modern C implementations use one size for all pointer types, but the C standard does not require it, and there are C implementations that have pointers of different sizes.