Question : Can pointers be right shifted and have bitwise AND performed on them?

I don't think following experssions are allowed:

some_pointer >> 8

some_pointer & 0x00FF


Please confirm that pointers cannot be right shifted and bitwise ANded.

Answer : Can pointers be right shifted and have bitwise AND performed on them?

Hi naseeam,

I don't know why you'd want to shift a pointer, but you can if you recast it to an integer type.

  void *ptr

  ptr = some_value ();

  ptr = (void*) (((int)ptr) >> 8);


Kent