That's actually correct C pointer arithmetic. When you increment a pointer, it moves ahead by the sizeof the underlying concrete type. If the pointer is to voi

That's actually correct C pointer arithmetic. When you increment a pointer, it moves ahead by the sizeof the underlying concrete type. If the pointer is to void, there is no underlying type and in fact void pointer arithmetic is disallowed by the standard. GCC lets you do it with an extention: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.8.0/gcc/Pointer-Arith.html https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.8.0/gcc/Pointer-Arith.h... So in this case, since the headers for the arrays are made up of two int's it's the right thing to do to move around by sizeof(int) memory address units. You do this with a cast before the arithmetic.