Indeed C doesn't do much with pointers, it is very close to a cpu register containing a memory address. If you are used to higher level languages, it is odd. Y

Indeed C doesn't do much with pointers, it is very close to a cpu register containing a memory address. If you are used to higher level languages, it is odd. You can simply cast a pointer to one type to a pointer to another type. This is very often used to introduce OO like behaviour, but you need to understand how it works under the hood. Pointer arithmetic is sensitive to types though, so C is a bit smart in that way.