Well, this is something which is very obvious to me. If you have a pointer to an int and increment it by one, it makes much sense to me that it advances the poi

Well, this is something which is very obvious to me. If you have a pointer to an int and increment it by one, it makes much sense to me that it advances the pointer to the next int and not just by one byte. Otherwise the usage of pointers as iterators would also not work.