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Why the pointer char size is 8 in here ? And why all size is equal ?

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9th Feb 2019, 3:24 PM
Programmer Raja
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sizeof of pointers differ between systems. 4 for 32-bit. 8 for 64-bit.
9th Feb 2019, 3:31 PM
Jomari Pantorilla
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A pointer contains a memory address, so its size is the same regardless of what it points to. As Jomari Pantorilla said, the size of an address is system-dependant, and is 8 bytes on 64-bit systems (8*8 = 64).
9th Feb 2019, 5:11 PM
Zen
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its for the memory of bits which it consumes and pointer char size is 8.
9th Feb 2019, 3:30 PM
Dibyendu Samanta
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