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Asked: 2026-06-12T16:29:36+00:00

Declarations look like these: void *malloc(size_t size); void free(void *pointer) As far as I

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Declarations look like these:

void *malloc(size_t size);
void free(void *pointer)

As far as I can understand, the void *malloc means that malloc returns a pointer to void (“Void pointer”) and free is just void. What’s the difference? Why does it look this way?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The void just means the return type isn’t defined (not a pointer to a char, for example), just a contiguous block of memory of specified size.

    free() doesn’t return anything. It doesn’t need to.

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