Ravi D.

• Oct 2nd, 2005

 

The size of a pointer variable is 4 bytes

Abhishek

• Feb 27th, 2006

 

the size of a pointer variable will always be 2 bytes.

for eg:-   *ptr , ptr will contain the address and address is of integer type which is of 2 bytes.

chandan

• Jun 24th, 2006

 

The size is 2 bytes.

Anon

• Aug 25th, 2007

 

The size of pointer is 2 bytes on 16 bit platform
The size of pointer is 4 bytes on 32 bit platform
The size of pointer is 8 bytes on 64 bit platform

antonymraphel

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• Dec 8th, 2007

 

the size of the pointer is 2 byte.
tat u can check it out by using the function SIZEOF().

ravi.iiita

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• Jun 16th, 2010

 

It is 4 bytes on 32 bit computer.

dipesh

• Jul 6th, 2012

 

Its 8 byte on 64bit machine.

jbode

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• Jul 12th, 2012

 

There is no fixed pointer variable size; it depends on the address range of the implementation and the pointer type. Its possible for pointers to different types to have different sizes and representations. For example, a Harvard architecture may have different sizes for function pointers vs. data pointers. A word-addressed architecture may have different sizes for pointers to types that take up full or multiple words (int, long, float, double, etc.) vs. types that take up only part of a word (char).

Arpita Mishra

• Aug 4th, 2012

 

The size of a pointer variable is 2 bytes which is the size of unsigned integer as pointer variables are always used to store addresses.

Narmadha

• Aug 23rd, 2012

 

The size of pointer variable depends on the processor architecture that is 32-bit or 64-bit.It may vary according to compiler we are used.