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why cant a pointer point to any data type? i.e dynamically assign the dataype of the variable

Apr 19th, 2002 04:19
Rafael Udaondo, Arnosh Bodhanwala,

Because a pointer is a memory address, and in this position you can 
store any data type.
Bye.