What is (void*) casting used for?

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I did try searching for this on Stack Overflow, but I think due to the syntax and not knowing exactly what to search I became a little unstuck.

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void*, usually referred to as a void pointer, is a generic pointer type that can point to an object of any type. Pointers to different types of objects are pretty much the same in memory and so you can use void pointers to avoid type checking, which would be useful when writing functions that handle multiple data types.

Void pointers are more useful with C than C++. You should normally avoid using void pointers and use function overloading or templates instead. Type checking is a good thing!