What is the data type of pointer variables?

Question

I refereed the following link,

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In the above link1 it was mentioned in answer that \"Pointers are of pointer type\".

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Answer 1

Your question probably refers to the "data type of a pointer", in contrast to the data type of the pointed-to data, which is what one would understand in the first place.

Based on this assumption, then please look at type uintptr_t or void*.

To quote Drew Dorman's answer: "uintptr_t is an unsigned integer type that is capable of storing a pointer. Which typically means that it's the same size as a pointer"

Of course, its size is platform-dependant: 32 bit or 64 bit. So don't transport this variable across platforms of different size.

Please note, to assign it you have to cast from the 'specific' pointer type, to the 'generic' one:

int var = 1;
int* addrOfVar = &var; // pointer to variable
uintptr_t pVar = (uintptr_t)&var;
uintptr_t pVar2 = reinterpret_cast(&var); // alternative cast