Pointer assignment to different types

Question

We can assign a string in C as follows:

char *string;
string = \"Hello\";
printf(\"%s\\n\", string); // string
printf(\"%p\\n\", string); // memory-address
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Answer 1

The type pf a string literal (e.g. "hello world") is a char[]. Where assigning char *string = "Hello" means that string now points to the start of the array (e.g. the address of the first memory address in the array: &char[0]).

Whereas you can't assign an integer to a pointer because their types are different, one is a int the other is a pointer int *. You could cast it to the correct type:

int *num;
num = (int *) 4404;

But this would be considered quite dangerous (unless you really know what you are doing). I.e. do you know what is a memory adress 4404?