c: size of void*

Question

I\'m a bit confused with a void* pointer in C. Especially after reading this question: Is the sizeof(some pointer) always equal to four?, where one person says there is no guara

Answer 1

Only data pointers. void * can hold any data pointer, but not function pointers.

Here is a C FAQ.

void *'s are only guaranteed to hold object (i.e. data) pointers; it is not portable to convert a function pointer to type void *. (On some machines, function addresses can be very large, bigger than any data pointers.)

As for the first part, yes, different types can have pointers of different sizes: