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I know that we have different pointers like int, float, and char. A void pointer is the only pointer which can hold all others.
Do the other pointers exist only for the flexibility to do pointer arithmetic?
Is there any other reason that pointers other than void are present in C language?
Type safety. Defining the type of pointers helps the compiler find errors where you are trying to use data of the wrong type through a pointer. That’s the reason C has types in the first place.