A void pointer is a C convention for ?a raw address.? The compiler has no idea what type of object a void Pointer ?really points to.? If you write

int *ip;

ip points to an int. If you write

void *p;

p doesn?t point to a void!

In C and C++, any time you need a void pointer, you can use another pointer type. For example, if you have a char*, you can pass it to a function that expects a void*. You don?t even need to cast it. In C (but not in C++), you can use a void* any time you need any kind of pointer, without casting. (In C++, you need to cast it).

A void pointer is used for working with raw memory or for passing a pointer to an unspecified type.
Some C code operates on raw memory. When C was first invented, character pointers (char *) were used for that. Then people started getting confused about when a character pointer was a string, when it was a character array, and when it was raw memory.

we can use any data type.

void * is a generic pointer .Suppose we don't know the pointer type exactly then we can use a void pointer and , can be assinged to this.

int *p;
void *a;
a=p;

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