What is the dynamic type of the object allocated by malloc?

Question

The C++ standard refers to the term "dynamic type" (and the C standard refers to "effective type" in the similar context), for example

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Answer 1

According to the C++ specification:

Dynamic type:

type of the most derived object (1.8) to which the glvalue denoted by a glvalue expression refers

The return value of malloc is a block of uninitialized storage. No object has been constructed within that storage. And therefore it has no dynamic type.

The void* does not point to an object, and only objects have a dynamic type.

You can create an object within that storage by beginning its lifetime. But until you do so, it's just storage.