Doubt in Question 8

#1

Why does the program snippet given in que 8 does not compile?

#2

@rahul.maheshmaheshwari hey rahul I think is that conversion of data type is difficult so compilation is not possible in this case.

#3

can you please elaborate a little more?

#4

@rahul.maheshmaheshwari
This is the code snippet :
int a = 10, *j;
void *k;
j = k = &a;
j++;
k++;
cout << j << k;

As you can see , we are trying to increment k with k++; k is a void* object. Pointers to void cannot be incremented as their increment level would not be defined hence this program will not compile.

#5

Thanks for the clarification.

#6

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