Why a pointer + 1 add 4 actually

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Because pointers are designed to be compatible with arrays:

*(pointer + offset)

is equivalent to

pointer[offset]

So pointer aritmetic doesn’t work in terms of bytes, but in terms of sizeof(pointer base type)-bytes sized blocks.

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